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

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I did not read the article so I am not sure if it stated the pathogen, but I bet people assumed Vibrio since the lady got sick in Florida. The most common cause of necrotizing fasciitis is Group A Strep...

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Yea it was necrotizing fasciitis which could be a bunch of different bacteria. There is no guarantee that culturing it earlier would have even helped. What is the culture came back regular old staph aureus? Doubtful they change anything. Not to mention cultures take time to come back. This was just an unfortunate freak thing that they turned into a clickbait article

Not to mention....

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They finally decided to do a biopsy of the area after the third trip. That's when they found out it was the flesh-eating virus, bacteria," Martin said.

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Wtf is a virus bacteria? Martins probably not the best person to be asking about the medical history or what was done wrong