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Fascinating! Wasn't this the diseases that ate part of Peter Watts? The marine biology coming for the marine biologist!


No, I believe his necrotising fasciitis was caused by an infection from a skin biopsy so likely a different bacteria.

(Flesh eating bacteria don’t literally eat the tissue, they release toxins that kill the tissue so there’s many different kinds that can cause necrotising fasciitis).


Thanks TIL




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