Flesh Eating Bacteria News

Aimee Copeland , the 25-year-old who lost her hands, both feet and her entire right leg to flesh-eating bacteria a year ago, has received two new bionic hands.

Her name is Aimee Copeland and at just 25 years old her life changed dramatically.

A young father-of-three is learning to walk again after a terrifying battle with the deadly flesh-eating disease necrotising fasciitis.

Aimee Copeland, the 25-year-old who lost her hands, both feet and her entire right leg to flesh-eating bacteria a year ago, has received two new bionic hands.

Aimee Copeland, the 25-year-old Gwinnett County woman who lost her hands and legs to a flesh-eating bacteria, is now getting used to a bionic hand.

Guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, and not as a result of a flesh-eating bacteria, the remaining members of the US band said.

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The surviving members of the metal band Slayer said that the guitarist Jeff Hanneman had died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, not from an infection of flesh-eating bacteria.

The heavy metal guitarist succumbed to liver failure in a Californian hospital on May 2 aged 49 - two years after contracting rare flesh-eating disease necrotising fasciitis after being bitten by a spider - and the band have now revealed the cause of death was actually alcohol-related cirrhosis, a condition he only became aware of in the days ... (more)

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection.

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection.

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection.

The Slayer guitarist, who co-founded the band with pal Kerry King in 1981, died of liver failure at a hospital near his California home.

Aimee Copeland, the 25-year-old Gwinnett County woman who lost her hands and legs to a flesh-eating bacteria, remains full of gratitude nearly a year after her illness.

Action News is happy to pass along new information on the man who's been battling a flesh-eating bacteria.