Flesh-eating bacteria comes from water

ASK THE DOCTORS

Dear Doctors: We live in Florida, and we keep seeing on the news about people dying from flesh-eating bacteria you can get when you go swimming. It seems like it’s happening a lot more often than it used to. Why is it so hard to be cured when someone gets sick?

Dear Reader: The term “flesh-eating bacteria” refers to certain types of bacteria that can cause a severe, fastmoving infect…