Stannard’s case developed into necrotizing fasciitis, which the Centers for DiseaseControl on its webpage about streptococcus A calls the “flesh-eating disease.” Stannard referred to it as “this thing coursing through your body.”.
... animals — as well as birds, deer and humans — where it deposits hundreds of eggs that hatch into flesh-eating maggots, according to the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention.
British gynaecologists have been warned of a startling rise in cases of a deadly flesh-eating disease that affects patients' genitals ... rise in cases of flesh-eating disease in patients' genitals.