That bites

Necrotising facitis isn't the bacteria. Several distinct types of bacteria can cause "flesh-eating disease." Stupid news articles getting basic shiat wrong.

This happened in 2002!

Ilene

Ihop

If he fell off the boat and landed in the water.....Bob

What the hell is everyone getting that now. Jeez Im just gonna go outside in a hazmat suit from now on

I thought this was going to be about that deck hand that they plastered all over their commercials lately. Looked like he was having a stroke or something.

EnderX: Ilene

Ihop

If he fell off the boat and landed in the water.....Bob

If he trips and falls in a pile of leaves .... Russel

I have a friend who has a rash on her arm and is ridiculously concerned that she has a flesh eating virus. I asked her last night what she was doing for it and she says "I scrub it everyday in the shower but it's still sore and raw." That might be the first time I actually face palmed in real life.

/cool story bro

i was gonna say herpes, this is nastier but less funny

AIDS? Please let it be aids.

Who needs flesh, anyway? Flesh is so mainstream.
Mimetic Poly-Alloy is the only way to go.

entropic_existence: Necrotising facitis isn't the bacteria. Several distinct types of bacteria can cause "flesh-eating disease." Stupid news articles getting basic shiat wrong.

Wait, I'm missing the part where you explain how you know for a fact that it's not necrotising facitis. OK, so there are other bacteria that cause "flesh-eating disease", so therefore he doesn't have NF? I don't get it.

groppet: What the hell is everyone getting that now. Jeez Im just gonna go outside in a hazmat suit from now on

This is how the Human Race ends. Not with a nuclear bang, but rather being consumed by micro organisms, life's self-correcting sub-routines.

Crabs?

/I know, not deadly

B.L.Z. Bub: entropic_existence: Necrotising facitis isn't the bacteria. Several distinct types of bacteria can cause "flesh-eating disease." Stupid news articles getting basic shiat wrong.

Wait, I'm missing the part where you explain how you know for a fact that it's not necrotising facitis. OK, so there are other bacteria that cause "flesh-eating disease", so therefore he doesn't have NF? I don't get it.

He knows that's not the bacteria involved because there is no bacteria by that name. Necrotizing fasciitis is the name of the disease, not the name of a bug.

Lost Thought 00: groppet: What the hell is everyone getting that now. Jeez Im just gonna go outside in a hazmat suit from now on

This is how the Human Race ends. Not with a nuclear bang, but rather being consumed by micro organisms, life's self-correcting sub-routines.

You're welcome to take yourself out now if you consider yourself a mistake. Ah, but you're among the elite who should survive, is that it?

Fish in a Barrel: B.L.Z. Bub: entropic_existence: Necrotising facitis isn't the bacteria. Several distinct types of bacteria can cause "flesh-eating disease." Stupid news articles getting basic shiat wrong.

Wait, I'm missing the part where you explain how you know for a fact that it's not necrotising facitis. OK, so there are other bacteria that cause "flesh-eating disease", so therefore he doesn't have NF? I don't get it.

He knows that's not the bacteria involved because there is no bacteria by that name. Necrotizing fasciitis is the name of the disease, not the name of a bug.

Oops, sorry I didn't get that.

Does a one-legged deck boss swim in circles?

Honest Bender: I thought this was going to be about that deck hand that they plastered all over their commercials lately. Looked like he was having a stroke or something.

That has been teased to death for just about a month. They still have yet to reveal what actually happened and what state the kid is in. It was looking like possibly dehydration until they were just about to haul the kid up in the CG chopper and he peed nice clear urine for about 45 seconds. Not a typical symptom of dehydration. They're milking the poor kids event for all it's worth though.

That shiat scares the hell out of me. I think I could handle just about any possibly terminal disease with some level of dignity. But something that just starts randomly eating my body and forcing sucessive amputations? fark that Im offing myself!

It's the Necrotizing Fascists that you REALLY have to worry about.

I was reading this story with CNN on in the background, and on came a story about some girl in Georgia who contracted this and almost died.

I think I need to go pray.

B.L.Z. Bub: entropic_existence: Necrotising facitis isn't the bacteria. Several distinct types of bacteria can cause "flesh-eating disease." Stupid news articles getting basic shiat wrong.

Wait, I'm missing the part where you explain how you know for a fact that it's not necrotising facitis. OK, so there are other bacteria that cause "flesh-eating disease", so therefore he doesn't have NF? I don't get it.

Necrotising facitis is the proper name for flesh-eating disease, it isn't the name of a bacterial species. He has necrotising facitis, but I know for a fact that necrotising facitis is the name for the disease, not the bacterium.

Most monobacterial NF is caused by either Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus) or MRSA. You can also get polymicrobial NF where you're infected by multiple bacteria like Group A Strep, Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio, Clostridium, etc.

As someone who is fighting off a leg wound staph infection, I'm really getting a kick out of these replies. I guess if things had really gotten off on the wrong foot, I would not be getting a kick out of these replies.

EnderX: This happened in 2002!

That's how the media works. Find one case of some dangerous disease, then find every single person who has ever had it. Scare the people into a frenzy. Mad Cow, Hintavirus, H1N1,SARS etc.

/this makes, what, 4 cases out of 300 million people?

Is it the ghey from spending so much time on a boat with other men?
/DNRTFA

Regarding Greenhorn Chris, here's an AP article from November of 2011 that says what happened to him, though he couldn't be named at the time.

SPOILERS

Is it sad to say I'd rather die than lose a limb?

JPSimonetti: Regarding Greenhorn Chris, here's an AP article from November of 2011 that says what happened to him, though he couldn't be named at the time.

SPOILERS

Thanks!

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: As someone who is fighting off a leg wound staph infection, I'm really getting a kick out of these replies. I guess if things had really gotten off on the wrong foot, I would not be getting a kick out of these replies.

What you did there...

bwilson27: AIDS? Please let it be aids.

AIDS is not something you 'catch'. Its a resulting condition.

mariner314: Is it sad to say I'd rather die than lose a limb?

No, it just sounds like you've never really had to make that decision.

People are heavy on semantics in this thread.

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: mariner314: Is it sad to say I'd rather die than lose a limb?

No, it just sounds like you've never really had to make that decision.

well, according to the article, neither did the deck boss guy.

and No Mariner, its not sad to think that. its pretty normal actually. But, most people when they come face to face with that situation learn to adapt and over come pretty well.

One of the waitresses we had here at the pub caught a staph infection while at the hospital and to save her life they had to amputate her hands and feet.

I saw her a few times afterwords, about a year after, and she was doing pretty good, walking on her prosthetics, refusing to use the fake arm things and drinking a big pint of beer with her elbows.

just as charming and resilient as ever with a different, more sober, and determined outlook on life.

last I heard she was engaged and had received a double hand transplant and was learning to use them

life goes on and you can't let setbacks, no matter how severe hold you back.

Cerebral Knievel: DontMakeMeComeBackThere: mariner314: Is it sad to say I'd rather die than lose a limb?

No, it just sounds like you've never really had to make that decision.

well, according to the article, neither did the deck boss guy.

and No Mariner, its not sad to think that. its pretty normal actually. But, most people when they come face to face with that situation learn to adapt and over come pretty well.

One of the waitresses we had here at the pub caught a staph infection while at the hospital and to save her life they had to amputate her hands and feet.

I saw her a few times afterwords, about a year after, and she was doing pretty good, walking on her prosthetics, refusing to use the fake arm things and drinking a big pint of beer with her elbows.

just as charming and resilient as ever with a different, more sober, and determined outlook on life.

last I heard she was engaged and had received a double hand transplant and was learning to use them

life goes on and you can't let setbacks, no matter how severe hold you back.

Good for her!

Was it this guy?


DNRTFA

T.rex: bwilson27: AIDS? Please let it be aids.

AIDS is not something you 'catch'. Its a resulting condition.

Are you HIV-positive about that?

A few weeks back I shared a train ride with one of the ship's engineers from The Deadliest Catch, but he wasn't from the Wizard's crew. Dude was in California during the offseason, because he can make a shiatload of money on squid seiners hauling in loads of humboldt squid.

Dude was actually pretty cool. Showed me a naked picture of his girlfriend on his cellphone.

/no, I'm not saying hi name or his ship's name

B.L.Z. Bub: entropic_existence: Necrotising facitis isn't the bacteria. Several distinct types of bacteria can cause "flesh-eating disease." Stupid news articles getting basic shiat wrong.

Wait, I'm missing the part where you explain how you know for a fact that it's not necrotising facitis. OK, so there are other bacteria that cause "flesh-eating disease", so therefore he doesn't have NF? I don't get it.

Real simple, NF happens because one of several aggressive and resistant bacteria are going nuts on your body. It's not so much that the bacteria are eating you flesh, but that they're throwing out so much toxic shiat in your system, combined with your own immune reaction, that flesh surrounding the infection dies (becomes necrotic). You get huge pus-filled abscesses which grow rapidly. Adjacent flesh dies from the toxicity.

It's awful. It's also a lot more common that the recent fear articles let on. Theyre cherry picking cases. Every hospital In the US has someone dying from NF. It's everywhere.

JPSimonetti: Regarding Greenhorn Chris, here's an AP article from November of 2011 that says what happened to him, though he couldn't be named at the time.

SPOILERS

I thought it was a physiological reaction to the sudden emergence of fecal matter in the rear of his weather gear. This poor dude tried to quit, admitting he was terrified not too long before this incident. I am not saying he is faking, I am saying that his brain sent his body a message: shut down and go into shock.

I grew up on the sea and in the mountains and the conditions in the Bering Sea in winter can be pretty extreme. For a kid like this that had never even SEEN the ocean before serving on a crab boat I can see how it could be terrifying. He would have had no frame of reference to assimilate what the hell was going on.

That said, I hope the young man is going to be ok.

TheBlackFlag: I am not saying he is faking, I am saying that his brain sent his body a message: shut down and go into shock.

My wife and I joked about this ... about how as soon as he got to shore, he was probably hopping off the stretcher like "Thanks guys! Feeling much better now!" ... I certainly couldn't handle that job. Though, as you said, there was something physical there or he deserves an Oscar. I do believe he's alive, at the very least. I checked and couldn't find an obituary or death notice from that period. And then what the article said, about his condition after leaving the first clinic. I'm sure he's fine. Happy to be on dry land, no doubt.

HotWingAgenda: A few weeks back I shared a train ride with one of the ship's engineers from The Deadliest Catch, but he wasn't from the Wizard's crew. Dude was in California during the offseason, because he can make a shiatload of money on squid seiners hauling in loads of humboldt squid.

Dude was actually pretty cool. Showed me a naked picture of his girlfriend on his cellphone.

/no, I'm not saying hi name or his ship's name


I wish you weren't such a liar.....