MRSA, a drug-resistant strain of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, thrives in hospitals where antibiotic use has bred a super-bug commonly known as the "flesh-eating" bacteria. ❋ Dr. Douglas Fields (2012)
Japanese researchers looked at 261 samples of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA, including 21 samples of the USA300 strain, a type of MRSA that has gained attention for its spread, its frequent presence in the community as well as the hospital, and its link to necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating disease. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The recall notice says the pads may be contaminated with Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, an organism that has caused rare but serious infections in humans, including meningitis in newborn infants, pneumonia in patients on ventilators and necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria disease. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Lurking on the surface of that base was Strep A bacteria, which causes a tissue-destroying disease known as necrotizing fasciitis, a very rare condition commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria. ❋ Unknown (2011)
One side fields giant flesh-eating slugs with a lifespan of millennia, the other side fields metallic-clad strippers out of a Heavy Metal comic. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The 1954 Richard Matheson novel “I Am Legend” brought us a world overrun with flesh-eating creatures and would change the portrayal of vampires forever. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Starring Woody Harrelson as a hunter of the flesh-eating undead, the movie is on pace to finish the three-day weekend period above the $23 million mark. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers — and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. ❋ M_francis (2009)
Dawn Of The Dead (1978) -- As an onslaught of flesh-eating zombies turns Pittsburgh and other major cities into hellish wastelands of walking dead, National Guardsman Peter (Ken Foree) and helicopter pilot Stephen (David Emge) are forced to take refuge in a vast shopping-mall complex, along with Stephen's girlfriend, Frances (Gaylen Ross). ❋ John Farr (2010)
You know, mindless flesh-eating killing machines and, at least they could clean up after their mess. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As buffoonish cops circle ill-advisedly, time ticks away for the flesh-eating family, which suddenly must figure out how to fetch its own meals, putting everyone at odds and a posse of streetwalkers — the default prey — on red alert. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Authorities say piranhas attacked and killed a young man who leaped into a river infested with the flesh-eating fish in northeastern Bolivia. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)
Unfortunately, the remote village has been the subject of a biological warfare experiment where only women are transformed into flesh-eating zombies via an airborne virus originally introduced through laundry detergent. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I think our obsession with bacteria and flesh-eating diseases is overblown. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2012)
The American actor Rob Freeman who had a small role as the eponymous soldier's son in the present-day sequence of Saving Private Ryan plays a US engineer stranded in Africa, the only survivor of an offshore plane crash, who is attempting to make his way to safety through a ravaged world populated by slow-moving, flesh-eating zombies. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Everything I've ever written is going to be put underneath a microscope, injected into a flesh-eating bacteria (that, of course, also has a human brain, a la Christine O'Donnell's scientific acumen) and set upon me like a pack of Michael Vick dogs. ❋ Jeff A. Katz (2010)
