Father sees 'miracle' as Aimee Copeland fights flesh-eating bacteria

manufacturing there? Is she an activist? Someone should look into this one as a potential crime. Anyone else come down with this disease?

She didn't get the bacteria from the hospital. It was from wherever she got the wound.

Yuck!

plan on it continuing.

Industries dump anything and everything in rivers and air and if citizens fight them, they get their phalanxes of lawyers and paid Congresspeople to do battle while the industries sit back and watch their money go to work.

There you have it.

Aimee fell from a homemade zip-line during an afternoon of swimming with friends in Georgia’s Little Tallapoosa River last Tuesday. Copeland reportedly gashed open her leg so deeply that doctors had to use 22 staples to seal the wound.

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/11/georgia-woman-fights-for-life-against-flesh-eating-bacteria.html

To help her skin heal faster.

http://gizmodo.com/5749968/the-skin-gun-that-sprays-new-skin-on-burn-victims-is-real

I didn't look at the video, squeamish, but the it's great to hear they have come up with something like this.

Since she's being treated by doctors, it's medicine that's making her better, not some imaginary being.

do. I believe in God miracles and in medical miracles.

children didn't survive the night tonight?

It's meaningless nonsense, and it causes harm. Humans being unable to save a child is one thing, it's quite another to fill survivors with doubt about whether they prayed hard enough, or if god was punshing them for something, etc.

Sorry, I don't buy it.

Atheists DO know that no man in the sky exists, either in our atmosphere or in outer space. That's a scientific fact. At least we haven't found him, despite our ability to send out telescopes that can see objects hundreds of thousands of light years away.

Where is YOUR evidence the invisible man exists?

that tried to kill this girl.

If 'miracle' also means "a wonder; marvel; a wonderful or surpassing example of some quality", it then seems an appropriate descriptor, which doesn't appear to specifically deny the actions of the medical staff.

the love and strength of her friends and family will help I know as

I too am a survivor of the same infection, it happened 15 years ago after the birth of my son via C-section obviously I lost no limbs but did have to undergo months of reconstructive surgery's on my abdomen

Great sign. Blessings to the family in this trying time.

here on DU. I guess in one of the occupy threads. I had no idea it was her. Now I feel like it's somebody I know.

While this sort of infection is rare, I do wonder about the emergency room giving her pain killers and sending her off. It feels like this should have been caught much sooner.

Necrotizing fasciitis is most commonly caused by Group A beta streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes). This is also the organism that causes strep throat but in some wounds, it can produce toxins and start rapid necrosis, or breakdown, of the underlying tissue.

I have seen Aeromonas hydrophila in a few wounds and other cultures over the course of my 37 years in the lab. I did not know, however, that Aeromonas could cause necrotizing fasciitis until a fellow worker posted a link about this poor girl on my Facebook page.

Aeromonas is known in the micro world as a "water bug." It is common in the environment. The fact that this wet zip line snapped and inoculated it deep into the tissue of her leg is tragic. I am surprised that she wasn't put on any antibiotics in the ER when they did the stapling, but that is just speculation. I am not a doctor and don't know how wounds like this are normally treated.

If it were ME, and I had a deep wound, I would insist on an infectious disease consultation on any sort of deep wound, especially after reading this article.

Bacteria is literally everywhere. We had no means to fight it until sulfa and penicillin were discovered in the 1930's. Unfortunately, overuse of them might put us right back where we started, but that's another thread.

I still don't understand the lack of antibiotics

When she came in it probably looked like a "clean" wound so they irrigated it and stapled it shut. The fact that she came back complaining of pain should have sent up some warning signs to somebody, I would think. I would suspect that the surgeons dealt with the original wound. Surgeons don't turf to medicine docs (of which infectious disease is included) unless they have to. I'm sure the hospital she's at is reviewing their ER procedures on wounds as we speak