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Family: Woman dies from flesh-eating disease in Florida
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
yesterday
MIAMI (AP) ? A 77-year-old woman was infected by flesh-eating bacteria and died nearly two weeks after she fell and scraped her leg while walking on a Florida beach, her family said Monday.
Wade Fleming told The Associated Press that his mother Lynn Fleming, who retired to Florida?s Gulf Coast, stumbled and fell into the water on Coquina Beach while her family was visiting from Pittsburgh. The wound swelled up and continued to bleed, leading her to urgent care where she was prescribed antibiotics and given a tetanus shot.
The woman was taken a day later to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with the flesh-eating disease and died Thursday after suffering two strokes and organ failure.
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https://www.apnews.com/bdb1549b3c154b829c22d9b281d37eea
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
yesterday
MIAMI (AP) ? A 77-year-old woman was infected by flesh-eating bacteria and died nearly two weeks after she fell and scraped her leg while walking on a Florida beach, her family said Monday.
Wade Fleming told The Associated Press that his mother Lynn Fleming, who retired to Florida?s Gulf Coast, stumbled and fell into the water on Coquina Beach while her family was visiting from Pittsburgh. The wound swelled up and continued to bleed, leading her to urgent care where she was prescribed antibiotics and given a tetanus shot.
The woman was taken a day later to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with the flesh-eating disease and died Thursday after suffering two strokes and organ failure.
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https://www.apnews.com/bdb1549b3c154b829c22d9b281d37eea