Flesh-eating bacteria is taking hold on more and more patients: ‘Large wounds, sometimes entire leg or chest and back’ | inland

BEVERWIJK – Burn center Beverwijk sees a tripling of patients with serious wound infections caused by group A streptococci, or the flesh-eating bacteria. The ‘very large wounds’ regularly cover an entire leg or chest, up to 40 percent of the entire body.

Francine Wildenburg

26-01-23, 07:30

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