Hunt for source of deadly ‘flesh-eating’ bug as hospital bids to contain infection

DISEASE specialists in Saint John in Ottawa, Canada, are searching for the source of a case of so-called flesh-eating disease that killed a 37-year-old woman on Friday.

Another patient with the disease was upgraded from serious to stable condition on Sunday night. The patient is in isolation at the Saint John Regional Hospital.

“We have instituted precautions to contain the spread of this infection and now feel the situation is under control as no new cases have developed,” Dr Jim O’Brien, chief of staff at the Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation, said.