4th person with flesh eating disease in Ga

Son: Flesh-Eating Bacteria Struck Milledgeville Man

Submitted by Bernard O'Donnell

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, 7:06pm

 

Doctors are scheduled to amputate a Milledgeville man's leg because it's infected with the flesh-eating bacteria.  http://milledgeville.13wmaz.com/

Paul Bales of Milledgeville latest flesh eating bacteria victim

6:07 PM, May 23, 2012

He was admitted to the Oconee Regional Medical Center on May 5, then sent to the Medical Center of Central Georgia a week later.
Mike Bales says doctors have told the family that his father suffers from necrotizing fasciitis, the same flesh-eating bacteria that struck north Georgia student Aimee Copeland and at least two other Georgians."  http://www.11alive.com/news/article/242378/40/Milledgeville-man-gets-case-of-flesh-eating-bacteria

 

Grandfather battling flesh-eating bacteria after accident

May 22, 2012 5:49 PM EDT

A grandfather is hospitalized in Macon after contracting a life-threatening flesh-eating condition.

Paul Bales, 67, retired to Milledgeville, but owns a restaurant in Lithonia.

Bales suffered a cut in his leg when he fell on May 2 as he cleaned up his boat ramp at his Milledgeville house. He believed that the injury was minor, so he put a Band-Aid on it and didn't even go to the hospital.

"It was a very small cut...as a matter of fact, he just bandaged it up and then went and played golf for the next couple of days," said his son, Mike Bales.

However, the cut had come into contact with water so – like Aimee Copeland – he contracted dangerous flesh-eating bacteria.

Bales' son Mike is a 16-year-veteran and captain with the DeKalb Fire Department. Capt. Bales says the flesh-eating bacteria that threatens his dad's life has already led to two tissue-removing surgeries, but there's more...

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/18597781/grandfather-battling-flesh-eating-bacteria-after-accident?clienttype=printable