Back in 2011, Jeff contracted necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease) on his right arm from a spider bite, and has been struggling in recovery since then.

On the other hand, just the mention of flesh-eating disease, a staph infection that affects maybe 1,500 Americans each year, is enough to make many people anxious.

The net effect for many people, when a television news report trumpets a death by flesh-eating disease in a local hospital, may be near-panic.

Other names for the disease are flesh-eating disease or flesh-eating bacteria syndrome.

Mr. Bouchard, who was practically canonized here after losing a leg to a flesh-eating disease in 1994, did not run an unassailable campaign.

"Georgia woman with flesh-eating disease leaves hospital"

Immediately, she contracts a flesh-eating disease.

An 8-year-old Queens boy who died on Sunday suffered from a severe bacterial infection that in its most virulent form causes the so-called flesh-eating disease, city officials said yesterday.

One disease, called necrotizing fasciitis or "flesh-eating" disease, destroys muscle and other tissue very quickly.

In its most serious form, the infection can cause toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis, the so-called flesh-eating disease.