Once largely confined to the Gulf Coast, flesh-eating bacteria cases have surged along the East Coast, with an 800% increase from 1988 to 2018, according to the CDC.
It was a nightmare of a situation for a 13-year-old teen who was infected with a flesh-eating bacteria-- possibly from his football helmet.
Doctors amputated the man's leg to stop the flesh-eating bacteria from spreading. They say he's lucky to be alive.
In a story you'll see only on ABC7 News, two young siblings in San Francisco are struggling with medical decisions and desperate finances after their mother came down with necrotizing fasciitis.