But this form of staph is actually starting to look like the flesh-eating bacteria.
Also called the "flesh eating bacteria, " strep A had sent Malyia into toxic shock.
Fat-eating bacteria are being put into Hull's sewers to try to get rid of fat blockages.
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We call - you know, the common name is flesh-eating bacteria.
Archer Daniels Midland is building a factory in Clinton, Iowa that will annually crank out 50, 000 tons of plastic naturally produced by corn-eating bacteria.
People start calling it flesh-eating bacteria, that a few years - maybe more than a decade ago, when Jim Henson, the Muppets creator died, that was actually strep, which is a different bacteria.
In other upcoming milestones, Copeland, whose story raised the nation's awareness of flesh-eating bacteria, will receive a service dog this summer, when she will work with amputee children in a wilderness camp.
Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ) is building a factory in Clinton, Iowa that will annually crank out 50, 000 tons of plastic naturally produced by corn-eating bacteria.
Copeland's struggle has been followed by many Americans as her family has shared the ups and downs of her battle against the "flesh-eating" bacteria.
Consumers can get infected with MRSA during a hospital stay, from skin-to-skin contact, and by handling or eating meat contaminated with the bacteria.
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German authorities urged people to avoid eating raw vegetables after traces of the bacteria were found on organic cucumbers last week.
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Dr. Buddy Creech, an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said that Aeromonas hydrophila -- which is "remarkably common in the water and in the environment" -- is one of many bacteria that can cause a flesh-eating process.
It houses millions of microorganisms and bacteria that exist for the sole function of eating dead things.
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It can be contracted through cuts in the skin or eating infected meat, but its deadliest form occurs when bacteria are inhaled.
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