re: Woman dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria, Husband blames delayed diagnosis

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There isn’t a test for it. It is based on clinical factors/symptoms. The only thing that would ever be done, test-wise, is a culture. There are other labs to perform, and maybe some imaging, but overall, it is a clinical diagnosis based on the person’s presentation. If Scruffy is being honest though, he has never seen or treated a necrotizing fasciitis case. It is fairly rare.

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Might have been a silly question, but I gotta ask, right?!? I know it's fairly rare, and your immune system has to be in a certain state, but I also know that it takes very little to get it going, so to speak. That's always kinda frightened me, any time I have a minor cut, etc.