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Necrotising fasciitis, the bacterial disease that results in the destruction of soft tissue (otherwise known as flesh-eating disease) has been diagnosed in a Manawatu patient.
Rates of necrotising fasciitis has risen between the years 1990 and 2006. During this time, 812 cases of the disease were diagnosed – 148 of those diagnosed died of the disease.
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