Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — “scares the living daylights” out of doctors, as several shared on a Canadian Medical Association Journal podcast that dropped this week.
The infections are often caused by invasive group A streptococcus, a bacterium that is increasing in Canada and globally, for reasons that remain unclear.
No doubt due to our xenophobia.
