Flesh-eating bacteria victim who lost four limbs resorts to morphine because ‘pain has become unbearable’

Aimee Copeland, 24, had skin graft surgery at hospital in Augusta, Georgia

The young woman who became the first person to fall victim to a flesh-eating disease has been suffering the worst pain of her entire ordeal, her father said.

Aimee Copeland’s agony has become so overwhelming that she has now started taking morphine after initially refusing medication.

However in a Father’s Day post on his blog, Andy Copeland said the painkillers were [...]

The heart-wrenching moment a mother who gave birth to twins just hours before contracting flesh-eating bacteria is reunited with her babies a month later in hospital

Lana Kuykendall’s infection grew one quarter of an inch in an hour
She was home from the maternity ward for just 13 hours before she returned to the hospital
Unable to care for her children as she fights for her life in intensive care unit

The South Carolina mother fighting off a ‘flesh-eating’ bacterial infection has been upgraded to fair condition and held her month-old twins for the first time since her treatment [...]