Landscaper Suffers Flesh-Eating Disease

A Cartersville landscaper represents the third case of flesh-eating bacteria has emerged with ties to Georgia. The man was injured at work when he fell from a tree two weeks ago and suffered a cut to his side. He is in critical condition at Doctors Hospital in Augusta battling the potentially deadly disease. That's the same place University of West Georgia graduate student Aimee Copeland is being treated.

"He got a cut on his side and took him to the hospital?EUR??,,????'???they treated him, he chose to leave. He got up the next morning it had spread," said the man?EUR??,,????'???s ex-wife. The infection quickly spread from his abdomen to his upper back. Reportedly, the man has undergone five surgeries as doctors remove nearly two pounds of infected tissue.

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