US woman loses limbs to flesh-eating bacteria
21 May 2012 12:48 PM IST
Both hands and the remaining foot of a 24-year-old American woman had to be amputated after they were infected by a flesh-eating bacterial infection called Necrotizing fasciitis.
Aimee Copeland from Georgia state is fighting a major battle as her limbs were amputated Saturday, the Daily Mail reported. Surgeons had previously amputated the woman's left leg at the hip.
When Copeland learned she would lose her hands and remaining foot, she responded by saying: 'Let's do this.'
The woman contracted the bacteria after an accident. She suffered a deep gash in her leg 1 May after falling from a homemade rope-line over a river in Georgia, and the bacteria took hold in the wound.
Doctors in Carrollton closed the wound with nearly two dozen staples but it became infected within days. On 4 May, she was diagnosed with the infection and flown 300 km to Augusta for treatment by specialists.
Aimee Copeland from Georgia state is fighting a major battle as her limbs were amputated Saturday, the Daily Mail reported. Surgeons had previously amputated the woman's left leg at the hip.
When Copeland learned she would lose her hands and remaining foot, she responded by saying: 'Let's do this.'
The woman contracted the bacteria after an accident. She suffered a deep gash in her leg 1 May after falling from a homemade rope-line over a river in Georgia, and the bacteria took hold in the wound.
Doctors in Carrollton closed the wound with nearly two dozen staples but it became infected within days. On 4 May, she was diagnosed with the infection and flown 300 km to Augusta for treatment by specialists.
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