The Disease is Fact. I've heard a story of a man who contracted this disease by getting cut by a piece of metal. How does he contract the disease by getting cut by metal? What are the facts that support this or Is this an Urban legend? Can anyone confirm if its true....any links to this story?

Thanks

More details please? There ARE flesh eating diseases, which one are you talking about? And what man are you talking about? If you were to get cut by a piece of metal it would need to be quite dirty and infested with bacteria to contract something... Is there a source where you got the information on the man who contracted it? A name of the disease?

I haven't heard about being cut on a bit of metal case, but there was another one where a man brushed up against a plant and contracted some sort of disease that started eating his flesh - nasty.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the disease Ebola a wasting disease - as is Leprosy of course.

There is flesh eating bacteria that one could certainly pick up by being cut on a peice of metal. Nasty nasty stuff.


from http://www.webmd.com/hw/infection/hw140408.asp

And here is one guys personal story with it: http://www.flesheatingbacteria.net


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I don't get it, cut on metal? what is it about the metal that makes you contract the disease? Is it an infection already on the metal? Or some particles or bacteria naturally found on a particular type of metal? And he got kicked in the leg, right? By a soccer ball? How does getting hit by a soccer ball get you a flesh eater? I remember my friends talking about a very old disease that would eat away everything inside you, until you liquify from the inside. Everything including heart, lungs, stomach, intestines etc.

Great story, From getting kicked in the ankle. The shoe must of had the bacteria. That's unbelievable. I heard another story about some guy getting cut by metal and getting this disease but i can't find it anywhere on the net.

I know a guy that got a staff infection(?) from rubbing his leg on a table. They had to cut away a large chunk of his muscle tissue. i don't think it's from the metal itself, but from whatever is on the metal or whom previously touched it.

The venom of a brown recluse can do the same thing:

It is difficult for a physician to accurately diagnose a "brown recluse bite" based simply on wound characteristics. It is absolutely necessary to have the spider for a positive identification. Necrotic wounds can result from a variety of agents such as bacteria (Staphylococcus, "flesh-eating" Streptococcus, etc.), viruses, fungi, and arthropods (non-recluse spiders, centipedes, mites, ticks, wasps, bedbugs, kissing bugs, biting flies, etc.). Necrotic conditions also can be caused by vascular and lymphatic disorders, drug reactions, underlying diseases states, and a variety of other agents. An annotated list of conditions that could be mistaken for a brown recluse spider bite is available at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2002/08/05/hlsa0805.htm. Misdiagnosis of lesions as brown recluse bites can delay appropriate care.



There are biological weapons that can cause something similar. Biological weapons include any organism (such as bacteria, viruses, or fungi) or toxin found in nature that can be used to kill or injure people. (Toxins are poisonous compounds produced by organisms.)

To certain extents, MRSA eats the flesh which it has infected. Very unpleasant.

Group A streptococcal (strep) infections are caused by group A streptococcus, a bacterium responsible for a variety of health problems. These infections can range from a mild skin infection or sore throat to severe, life-threatening conditions such as toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis, commonly known as flesh eating disease. source

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (a.k.a. Golden Staphylococci) is a specific strain of the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium that has developed antibiotic resistance to all penicillins, including methicillin and other narrow-spectrum β-lactamase-resistant penicillin antibiotics.

there is a variety of flesh eating diseases, luckily these are very rare...

here some examples of wounds inflicted by flesh eating bacteria

WARNING! VERY EXPLICIT PICTURES!

http://atnelson.myweb.uga.edu/nasty%20leg4.jpg

http://atnelson.myweb.uga.edu/nasty%20leg2.jpg

You can catch bacterial infections in all different ways, such as having it enter the blood stream (via a cut), ingesting the bacteria, or inhaling it etc.

Thank you.

But shouldn't you quote your sources when you copy-paste?

Let's refrain from posting 'nastier' examples, please people, polite consideration should be given the fact that this is a 'family style' forum, a modicum of decency would be appreciated.

MM

Watch out you crazy lobster! ...... I was just making things easier on myself!

You mister.. need to chill on some ice and have some wine! LOL!




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thats why I added the warning with the pics but no prob

one of my friends uncles got/caught that from hospital

like u said unpleasant!

I now feel physically sick....i have all been quite sensitive to these topics i keep imagining it all the time...i hate rotting or degeneration of the skin its a horrible thing......

its wrong that such a catalytic bacterium exists and just think...imagine if it got to places you would preferably wouldn't want it....what about"Oh ive got an intense itch on my leg?,".scratches it',Leg flesh collapses in EEErrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......rot every where and a dirty filthy black hole aswel to make it look pretty

OOHhhh...the thought!

apparently aswell there is a internal response to cause self degeneration....i dont care how it start as i wish not to look it up!!!


I feel sick now!

A friend of mine`s dad had this last year. It ate one side of his body from is ass cheek down to his knee,,almost killed him.

...for some reason, I am also feeling a bit queasy, Kobie

But I don't see how this is any different from any other infection via metal, other than flesh eating diseases are rare.
Poor guy though - talk about bad luck.

I had a friend who had an open scratch on his buttocks, and he contracted a form of the flesh eating bacteria from a public toilet seat. He said it felt like someone was taking a red-hot iron ball, and pressing it into his backside. He had to have an ice-cream sized scoup taken out of hit left buttock, and couldn't sit down for about a month.

It was a hard story to believe until he showed me his scar...

Quess whos NOT going to use any public restrooms now?

Yeah, I only pee at them, never sit down.

About a couple months ago I got an ulcer on my ankle that the doctors think was a brown recluse bite. It's strange because I live in Michigan, and this is far out of their habitat. It happened when I was sleeping. I woke up with a blister the size of a golf ball on my ankle, so I popped it. After a couple days my whole leg swelled and it hurt like hell to walk on it. Eventually a sore opened up, so I went to the E.R. Took about a month to heal, but they said if I had waited too much longer to come in it could have been life threatening.

The sore on my ankle got about 4-5 inches inches in diameter where the flesh had been eaten away down to the meat. It wasn't pretty.

To add about sheet metal, if you get cut with that stuff clean it off and disinfect fast. It's a breeding ground for bacteria, and the oil on it isn't good for you either.

not to mention also get a tetnus shot

it may be leprosy

or gaine green(dont know the spelling)

gangreen

And here is one guys personal story with it: http://www.flesheatingbacteria.net
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WOW! Are those gross.

My friend's grandfather contracted this disease and died.

It's so nasty

Hi! I'm new to site and just ran across this. My step-father just died the week after Thanksgiving 2006 from this.

It was incredibly fast. He lived in an assisted living home in Tifton, GA. The Saturday following Thanksgiving he had gone to the movies, then to the mall, then out for dinner. All was well. Saturday night, his leg began to hurt, terribly. He took some painkillers, but the pain was so bad he couldn't sleep. By Sunday morning, the leg was red and swollen and he was in agonizing pain. An ambulance was called and by the time he was admitted to the hospital, his kidneys had failed. He was put into a drug induced coma and by Monday morning they removed his leg. Tuesday, his hip had to be removed and Wednesday they removed the lower part of his spine. The disease was still ravishing his body and by Thursday, my sister told the doctors to stop mutilating him and allow him to die, which he did, the following Saturday. He was kept in a coma the entire time. The doctors could not find the site of the infection due to the advanced state of the disease.

It is my understanding that older people and those with suppressed immune systems are more prone to this bacteria. Pretty scary disease!

Aw I am sorry to hear about your Stepfather. It must have been an incredible shock to him and you and your family

its gangrene . just correcting u lol

my little sister had it when she was 2. She is now 15 i am happy to say.

But she contracted it when she had the chickenpox, which she got from me.
And was in the hospital for i think 2 weeks. I don't remember much of it, I know
I was in kindergarten and liked getting early dismissal every day for two weeks at noon
so i could go see my mom and sister since they had to stay at the hospital.

My husband contracted a rare form of necrotizing fasciitis while serving in the Navy. He is medically retired now, and getting treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. He kept his leg, though it's pretty messed up and a lot of the muscle is missing, and there are all kinds of calcium deposits and it breaks easy, so he has to walk with a full leg brace all the time. Some of the other guys in his company contracted the disease the same time he did, but they didn't make it. Horrible horrible disease. In his medical paperwork it is listed as a virus, but, as I said, it was normal necrotizing fasciitis, it was a rare form. But he doesn't have to work for the rest of his life. The military gave him a pension at the age of 19 and life long benefits, though it took him a couple years to be able to walk again, and soon he will probably be back in a wheel chair again for the rest of his life. It sucks.

Some of the rust on metal is bacteria infected if for some reason you where to get cut on a rusted piece of metal and you didn't take care of it you would easily get a flesh eating bacteria. I don't under stand the whole soccer ball thing but if it hit his cut it might have pushed some infected puss from the top of the wound in to his blood making the infection worse.

I saw on TLC or one of those where a man caught a flesh eating bacteria up in his nostril canal... within 24 hours it had literally eaten half of his head away... They had to do surgery immediately, he had a choice, to lose part of his head, or don't do surgery and die.

After removal of this fungus, they made this apparatus that they placed on his head/face that filled the area that was removed during surgery...I've never seen nothing like it.. it was on one of TLC's medical miracles or something like that.

It happens but it's pretty rare. Like it was said before the metal would have to be rusted pretty bad and have the bacteria on it. But i saw something on montel williams a long time ago about a guy that had gotten the flesh eating disease from a splinter which sounds more likely to happen to me since wood would be a better breeding ground for that type of bacteria to thrive and grow in. But anyway the disease actually ate around the guys forehead and his eyes and he had to have a prosthetic face made.

Sunni, I remember watching this, it was awful! I can not believe he made it through the surgery, and the prosthetis (or what its now called in English) was amazingly well done!

I didn't realize it worked that quick! Egads I would NOT like to contract that virus!

flesh eating disease WOMEN???????????? SOUL SUCKERS AS WELL

eeep you scare me lol I had a staph infection a few years back on my face due to acnea and I didnt treat it like doctor said since I didnt think it was that major lol took a year to heal up

no if its what she had they wouldnt let you go visit her at least without protective were they wouldnt.

when I was 15 was in the hospital with pneumonia when some kid from china or something got to be my roomate. at first they though it was just a skin infection. gotten from a mosquito bite he scratched. but it spread sooo bad.. over night was 1/2 of his leg.. had started to be the size of a canadian dollar. they moved the kid right away never saw him again probably put him in isolation.

If the man was cut by a piece of metal and contracted a flesh eating disease, it was most likely flesh eating bacteria (Streptococcus pyogenes). The thing is, he wouldn't have contracted the disease from the metal, but the metal provided an opening for S. pyogenes to get into his skin. ALOT of people have this bacteria in their body all of the time, it's just in an area where it really isn't doing much. S. pyogenes, for instance, lives in the throat, nose, and lungs of humans without being pathogenic. All the man had to do was even breathe on the cut, or wipe his nose with his hand and accidentally touch the wound to contract the disease. Thousands of people yearly have this happen to them (it's really the same thing as gangrene, just all the way down to the fascia.

Actually, if it was necrotizing fasciitis, the bacteria that causes it (which I mentioned right before this) only really grows on a medium with blood on it. There are cases of it being in dust in public places, but it's really rare and only happens because dust is mainly composed of dead skin cells.

a guy down the street had it. he lost his arm. he got it from scraping his knee at a department store.