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<description><![CDATA[A 7-year-old Texas boy who died during a Southern California vacation was killed by flesh-eating bacteria.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/30/13568065-flesh-eating-bacteria-killed-texas-boy-in-calif</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/30/13568065-flesh-eating-bacteria-killed-texas-boy-in-calif</guid><category>us</category><category>death</category><category>health</category><category>southern-california</category><category>bacteria</category><category>eating</category><category>flesh-eating-bacteria</category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:14:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Woman with flesh-eating disease takes own breaths</title>
<description><![CDATA[A young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating disease is now able to breathe on her own, a milestone that sent the family's spirits soaring, her father said Monday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Martin]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jeff Martin]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/16/11739731-woman-with-flesh-eating-disease-takes-own-breaths</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/16/11739731-woman-with-flesh-eating-disease-takes-own-breaths</guid><category>us</category><category>science</category><category>bacteria</category><category>us-news</category><category>eating</category><category>this-is</category><category>flesh-eating-bacteria</category><category>flesh-eating</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:53:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1ef64e03-194c-408e-b4d8-00c45a634c77.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1ef64e03-194c-408e-b4d8-00c45a634c77.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland. the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student is fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg. They warned she would likely lose her other foot and both hands. (AP Photo/Copeland Family)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5bea581f-d443-44a3-bebc-b7ab59a5415c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5bea581f-d443-44a3-bebc-b7ab59a5415c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student  fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg. They warned she would likely lose her other foot and both hands. (AP Photo/Copeland Family)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d676cb45-8cfd-4f0a-ba19-71d8a63e3a24.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d676cb45-8cfd-4f0a-ba19-71d8a63e3a24.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection. Copeland has learned she will lose her hands and remaining foot, and responded by saying &quot;Let's do this.&quot; Her father recounted the conversation in an update on his Facebook page Friday, May 18, 2012. Andy Copeland wrote about the difficult talk he had a day earlier with his daughter Aimee. The 24-year-old woman contracted the bacteria after an accident. (AP Photo/Copeland Family)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5cf3a878-8ec2-4de3-8a1e-3469070e0883.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5cf3a878-8ec2-4de3-8a1e-3469070e0883.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland. the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student is fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection.  Copeland has learned she will lose her hands and remaining foot, and responded by saying &quot;Let's do this.&quot; Her father recounted the conversation in an update on his Facebook page Friday, May 18, 2012. Andy Copeland wrote about the difficult talk he had a day earlier with his daughter Aimee. The 24-year-old woman contracted the bacteria after an accident. (AP Photo/Copeland Family)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Judge upholds most of award in flesh-eating case</title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has upheld most of an $8.5 million judgment awarded to a woman who lost use of her arm due to a flesh-eating bacteria misdiagnosed by an Air Force base doctor.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Suhr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jim Suhr]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/25/2599718-judge-upholds-most-of-award-in-flesh-eating-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/25/2599718-judge-upholds-most-of-award-in-flesh-eating-case</guid><category>air-force</category><category>lawsuit</category><category>bacteria</category><category>us-news</category><category>eating</category><category>flesh-eating-bacteria</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:16:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Texas Man Battles Flesh-Eating Bacteria</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Nacogdoches man was in critical but stable condition after three surgeries aimed at saving him from a flesh-eating bacteria that infected him during a swim off the coast of Galveston County.]]></description>
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