A case series highlights the features of severe, necrotic skin wounds among hospitalized adults associated with xylazine exposure, including 9% that involved exposed deep structures such as bone ...

Luis Sanchez, on behalf of Austin Pets Alive! in Texas, told Newsweek: "This dog deserves the world, and he got it." ...

The brown recluse spider is proficient at inflicting painful and necrotic wounds. The skin necrosis sometimes can be significant, and require a skin grafting or amputation of the affected skin to ...

They were not wounds from infection but rather from tissue death or necrosis. Initially, our clinic patients found that if they changed dope "stamps"—something like a brand in the unregulated ...

Purpura fulminans is a disorder where your skin bleeds and dies rapidly (skin necrosis). The bleeding is caused by blood ... bloodstream infections, wound or surgical site infections, and meningitis.

The "flesh-eating bacterium" can infect patients through wounds on the hands and feet, causing rapid necrosis and multiple organ failure. Death can occur within a few dozen hours of its onset ...

Patients can develop necrosis of the limbs and suffer multiple ... says STSS bacteria are often said to enter the body through a wound or a small cut, but in some cases the cause of infection ...