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Necrotising Fasciitis Kills Richard Johnson In Four Hours
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by Blaine Metzgar | September 7, 2009 at 02:14 pm
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Richard Johnson, a 54 year-old father, died in merely four hours after becoming infected with Necrotising Faciitis. The disease, becoming increasingly more prevalent, infects the body, both internally and externally so quickly in fact that it can actually be seen spreading.
Mr Johnson had first been prescribed painkillers by his family doctor Jan Shorney.
He then developed a pain in his left ankle which Dr Shorney and an out-of-hours doctor believed to be arthritis.
His condition deteriorated so quickly that by the time his family rushed him to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital at 3.10 am it was too late to save him.
He was rushed straight into the operating theatre where surgeons tried to cut away the diseased tissue but found the infection was spreading too quickly to control.
It wasn't determined that Johnson died of Necrotising Faciitis until a post mortem examination was done. The surgeon had no evidence that showed the disease was the cause of death; he had the following to say regarding the case,
‘I do not have any evidence that earlier action would have made a difference in this case.
‘Mr Johnson began to suffer a sore throat in mid November which developed into fulminating necrotising fasciitis.
‘The family have my deepest sympathies for this tragic loss.’
He and other doctors warn that the disease is becoming a more and more common threat.
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at 20:58 on September 7th, 2009
another of the "terrible diseases" to die of, and this one is so fast, and too often contracted during an operation which may not of been the case with this man?