In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951018180833.19395A-100000 at marcus>,
MyPhuong Thi Le <lemt at whitman.edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>>>I was wondering if anyone could tell me the name of the disease that ate
>through human flesh. There was a very small outbreak of it last summer
>in the Pacific Northwest of U.S.A. It was some kind of strept throat.
>>Thank you,
>MyPhuong
I think you've concatenated two incidents. There was an outbreak of food
poisoning in the US Pacific Northwest caused by undercooked hamburgers.
The bacteria involved was a form of E. Coli and it didn't eat flesh, it
just killed the people. There was a weird incidence of a streptococcus
bacteria in the UK which did indeed eat some poor guy's face, according
to the reports I read.
Stay tuned for further untreatable bacterial diseases as Mother Earth's
immune system works to rid her of the plague of human overpopulation.
Mark Kinsler
a very large community of
protozoans who, working together,
can ride a bicycle. A lesson in
cooperation for all of us.
