The victim was a nurse at a care facility. She had cut her thumb while moving a wheelchair, and the thumb was painful and swollen. She was worried that she'd dislocated it, so she went to hospital. She was given medicine for the pain and sent home. Three days later the nurse's arm was doubled in size and leaking fluid, and she was in terrific pain. Her husband took her to hospital, where doctors diagnosed necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating disease. Doctors said it was impossible to know where she contracted the bacteria. To save the woman's life, surgeons amputated her arm at […]