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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (66119)	12/7/2004 1:16:59 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

We've had three or four cases of necrotizing fasciitis out here in the last few years. Very spooky stuff. Starts as an insignificant wound one day. In a few hours you figure you might need to get to a doctor. They slap you in the hospital that evening. By morning infection has spread over a large portion of your skin despite massive doses of antibiotics. And by that evening it's all over for you. Apparently it's not something new. I was reading an account of the Battle of Shiloh, American Civil War- a general officer bumped his shin climbing out of a boat, the bump quickly became inflamed and spread, and by the next day it had killed him.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (66119)	12/7/2004 8:10:37 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

<As long as it isn't "necrotizing fasciitis ".> aka climbing bacteria [my nickname for it - I forget how I got that]. Yukkk. Of course, in my country, the most infamous case was that of Lucien Bouchard, former premier of Quebec from 1996 to 2001. Before becoming premier, he was an opposition leader in the federal House of Commons. In 1994, while leader of the sovereignist party, Bloc Québécois, he became infected with NF and lost a leg to the illness. At the time, some said that perhaps the loss of his leg had some symbolic significance.