Props to submitter and Toronto Star:

"The family requested that the news media refrain from calling necrotizing fasciitis a "flesh-eating disease.""

Well, it kind of is a flesh-eating disease. Jeez.

Seriously though, necrotizing fasciitis is some scary stuff. The Rotten Library has an article about it (not sure if I should link or not, it's pretty graphic).

I prefer to call it "Puppet's Revenge".

Sad. I wish him luck.

how come nobody ever puts a different spin on stuff like this. why not phrase the tagline:
Flesh-eating disease beats nobel prize-winning physicist for his arm

beside he alright now...(get it all right...)

Cornell, who is right-handed, remains in critical condition in a hospital after undergoing six surgeries -- including one to amputate his left arm and shoulder to stop the spread of the infection called necrotizing fasciitis.

At least his fapping arm is unaffected.

Some people have been pissing me off; does anyone know where I can pick some of this up?

Trunks

beside he alright now...(get it all right...)


Bwahahahaha!! - hey pal, you owe me a new CRT!

Doesn't sound like a very smart thing to do.

Hey Physicist,
Physicize This!

My son's high school Japanese teacher came down with this stuff after foot surgery....she was lucky, they managed to save some of her foot....v. nasty stuff

Sucks to be him. At least he didn't get hit by a train.

They never said how he got it.

I want to know what not to do.

OMG FLESH EATING BACTERIA


AHHHHHHHHHH

Tis merely a flesh wound

This stuff is serious.... read the book "Complications" by Dr. Atul Gawande.... it's almost always fatal. He got lucky.

You mean a Nobel prize doesn't keep these things away?

I submitted this already with a much funnier disease.

Fascitis? Uh oh, we may have little hitlers running around...

"This sensational expression unnecessarily personifies this disease - a bacterium has no mouth and causes an emotional response in people receiving the message."


It sure caused an emotional response in the good Doctor now, didnt it?

"Holy Crap! Look at my arm!"

ok now that I RTFA it says that it's fatal around 20% of the time... the book has a much higher number though. Either way, this stuff is not something you want to have.

How did he catch it, from a toilet handle?

There was this dude I used to work with that used to wear really short shorts. We would always ask him if his ass was eating his pants.

single-cell organisms: 1
multi-cell organisms: 0

/thinks they should have called the flesh-eating disease "vicious", and the family "slightly dim", just to drive the point home

I heard he got it from riding a tractor in a swimsuit.

bummer.

Didnt FARK have a thread out of Colorado a few weeks back about skin infections and health clubs?

/ Bacteria do not eat flesh; instead they liquefy it and cause it to slough off the bone. Now isnt that a lot nicer mental picture.

Bet that Nobel Prize is doing you alot of good, ain't it buddy!

nec.fac. is pretty nasty. My wife sees it at the hospital pretty frequently. If you're lucky, you just lose a limb - but if the infection is in your torso, you're dead - it just dissolves your insides.

/suddenly not feeling up to lunch

The family requested that the news media refrain from calling necrotizing fasciitis a "flesh-eating disease."

Note to self: Do NOT refer to necrotizing fasciitis as a flesh-eating disease. Got it!

BTW, where the hell is the "Man-I'm-glad-I'm-not-that-guy" tag?

Scientific close-up of flesh-eating bugs (may be disturbing and too technical for some):

Call me Lefty

The family requested that the news media refrain from calling necrotizing fasciitis a "flesh-eating disease."

Good thing they didn't

and that successful Japanese author that commited suicide

Iris Chang was an American from Princeton; her ancestors were from China.

there goes the scientist

When I hear the term Flesh Eating Disease it always reminds me of the game Pac Man.

Watch yourself around nasty Gulf Coast settings. Several cases of nec.fac. developed after people lacerated themselves and were exposed to bacteria in that setting.

/goes to wash hands....again

What's with all the hate towards having a Nobel Prize? I mean, sure, it's extraneous info as far as being a victim of a flesh-eating disease is concerned. Still, it's worthy of at least some respect. Besides, the media are the ones who chose to report it as him having a Nobel Prize, not him. Or are some of you upset that you'll never have a Nobel Prize?

Great, thanks SkydivingNurse, I'll just stay in bed.

oh my god i'm never leaving the house again

In light of this news, I am going to give-up eating boogers. Especially if I don't know where they've been.

/likes boogers

How do you catch this shiat, anyways?

Its it just random?

Or do you have to be someplace nasty? (like that brain-eating amobea you can pick up swimming in retention ponds)

GIS of necrotizing fasciitis for the morbidly curious. (GIS via A9) Auugghghghhkkk.

A statement released by his family said the bacteria appears to have been eradicated.

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hmm, and the left arm and shoulder too have been eradicated along with it.

/Sorry
//hellbound, one aisle ticket please

I know someone who went to Stockholm on a business trip. He took a shower on a Thursday and has a small open wound on his ankle. By saturday he felt ill on the plane ride back, by monday his leg was amputated at the knee. Diagnosis: flesh eating bacteria entered through the small wound in the ankle. Apparently, this bacteria is in the water in Stockholm.

The guy died a year later of cancer (lymphoma).

My personal opinion is that we are all exposed to this bacteria in minute quantities, but most of us have the immune system to fight it off...