A man in Georgia had his leg amputated after he was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, the flesh-eating infection that has made headlines worldwide for the past month. Click below to read the rest of the story.
Mike Bales told WMAZ—TV that his father, Paul Bales, cut his leg on a dock near his Milledgeville home earlier this month.
The next day, after he started feeling intense pain in his leg, he was hospitalized and diagnosed with the potentially deadly infection.
The sudden turn of events was shocking for Mike Bales, who said his dad had seemed perfectly healthy.
“(It was a) very small cut, matter of fact he bandaged it up and then went and played golf for the next couple of days,†he told The Telegraph.
The infection has been in the news lately after a Georgia college student, Aimee Copeland, lost multiple limbs after a cut of hers became infected.
Another woman in South Carolina was also hospitalized with the infection.
Mike Bales said his father’s leg has to be amputated because the infection damaged blood vessels in his leg.
