Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human remains horrified and sickened even experienced rescue workers. For the most part they found not bodies, just pieces of bodies. Lew Napolitan, who lives close by and ran to the scene, could not forget the sight of a thighbone covered with burned flesh. Monty Winchester, a member of the fire department in nearby South Heights, "came in this ((Friday)) morning after picking up parts of bodies all night, and he was pretty sick," said his friend Daniel Godich. "He had to take one guy out of a tree in pieces, and that was bad enough, but when he came...
...notorious flare-up in Gloucestershire, England, of what the press dubbed flesh-eating bacteria alerted people to the dangers of streptococcus-A infections. The common bacteria that cause strep throat generally produce no lasting harm if properly treated, but certain virulent strains can turn lethal. Strep-A infections claim thousands of lives each year in the U.S. and Europe alone...
...anxiety about disease. It's getting harder to enjoy a meal, make love or even take a walk in the woods without a bit of fear in the back of the mind. No wonder people pay an unreasonable amount of attention when tabloids trumpet headlines about "flesh-eating bacteria." And no wonder Stephen King's The Stand, a TV mini-series based on his novel about a "superflu" that ravages the world's population, earned some of the year's highest ratings...
...medicine's worst nightmares is the development of a drug-resistant strain of severe invasive strep A, the infamous flesh-eating bacteria. What appears to make this variant of strep such a quick and vicious killer is that the bacterium itself is infected with a virus, which spurs the germ to produce especially powerful toxins. (It was severe, invasive strep A that killed Muppeteer Jim Henson in 1990.) If strep A is on the rise, as some believe, it will be dosed with antibiotics, and may well become resistant to some or all of the drugs...
Several days after a victim contracts the virus, his eyes turn red and his head begins to ache. Red spots appear on his skin and, spreading quickly, become a rash of tiny blisters, and then the flesh rips. Blood begins to flow from every one of his body's orifices. The victim coughs up black vomit, sloughing off parts of his tongue, throat and windpipe. His organs fill with blood and fail. He suffers seizures, splattering virus-saturated blood that can infect anyone nearby. Within a few days the victim dies, and as the virus destroys his remaining cells, much...