Thursday, September 17, 2015

Infected mosquito bite leads woman to have leg amputated

A woman had to have her leg amputated at the hip after she contracted a flesh-eating bug from an infected mosquito bite.

Jodie Francis, 44, told how she was taking down Halloween decorations in late 2012 when she began getting pains in her left leg.

"I was up and down my ladder getting down the Halloween décor, cleaning my gutter and bagging all of the pine needles,” said Jodie, of Edison, New Jersey, “and I started getting pains in my left leg, like I'd badly pulled a muscle."

It got so bad that a few days later she could not walk and her boss at the events management company where she worked sent her home .... http://home.bt.com