Editing Necrotizing fasciitis (section)

=== Notable cases ===
* 1994: [[Lucien Bouchard]], future premier of [[Québec]], Canada, who was infected while leader of the federal official opposition [[Bloc Québécois]] party, lost a leg to the illness.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Lisa |last1=Seachrist |date=October 7, 1995 |title=The Once and Future Scourge: Could common anti-inflammatory drugs allow bacteria to take a deadly turn? |journal=Science News |volume=148 |issue=15 |pages=234–35 |url=http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1995/148-15/14815-14.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202170132/http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1995/148-15/14815-14.pdf |archive-date=December 2, 2007 |doi=10.2307/4018245|jstor=4018245 }}</ref>
* 1994: A cluster of cases occurred in Gloucestershire, in the west of England. Of five confirmed and one probable infection, two died. The cases were believed to be connected. The first two had acquired the ''Streptococcus pyogenes'' bacteria during surgery; the remaining four were community-acquired.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cartwright |first1=K. |last2=Logan |first2=M. |last3=McNulty |first3=C. |last4=Harrison |first4=S |last5=George |first5=R. |last6=Efstratiou |first6=A. |last7=McEvoy |first7=M. |last8=Begg |first8=N. |title=A cluster of cases of streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis in Gloucestershire |journal=Epidemiology and Infection |volume=115 |issue=3 |pages=387–397 |year=1995 |pmid=8557070 |pmc=2271581 |doi=10.1017/s0950268800058544}}</ref> The cases generated much newspaper coverage, with lurid headlines such as "Flesh Eating Bug Ate My Face".<ref>{{cite news|last=Dixon|first=Bernard|title=SCIENCE: Vital clues to a mystery killer|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-vital-clues-to-a-mystery-killer-1341567.html|access-date=28 May 2013|newspaper=The Independent|date=11 March 1996|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214061218/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-vital-clues-to-a-mystery-killer-1341567.html|archive-date=14 December 2013}}</ref>
* 1997: [[Jeff Moorad]], former agent and partial owner of the [[San Diego Padres]] and [[Arizona Diamondbacks]], contracted the disease. He had seven surgeries in a little more than a week and later fully recovered.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090903&content_id=6780932&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |first=Barry M. |last=Bloom |date=September 5, 2009 |title=Moorad's life changed by rare disease |publisher=Major League Baseball |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908052545/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090903&content_id=6780932&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |archive-date=2009-09-08 }}</ref>
* 2004: [[Don Rickles]], American stand-up comedian, actor, and author, known especially for his [[insult comedy]], contracted the disease in his left leg. He had six operations and later recovered. The condition confined him in his later years to performing comedy from a chair.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/don-rickles-was-politically-incorrect-before-it-was-incorrect-and-hes-still-going-at-90/2016/05/24/3b5e0422-1868-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html?noredirect=on |first=Karen |last=Heller |title=Don Rickles was politically incorrect before it was incorrect. And at 90, he's still going |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2016-05-25 |access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref>
* 2004: [[Eric Allin Cornell]], winner of the 2001 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], lost his left arm and shoulder to the disease.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/newsfromnist_Cornell_mediaevent.htm |date=April 13, 2005 |orig-date=transcript of event on April 12, 2005 |title=Cornell Discusses His Recovery from Necrotizing Fasciitis with Reporters |publisher=NIST |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825234301/https://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/newsfromnist_Cornell_mediaevent.htm |archive-date=2009-08-25 }}</ref>
* 2005: [[Alexandru Marin (physicist)|Alexandru Marin]], an experimental particle physicist, professor at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[Boston University]], and [[Harvard University]], and researcher at [[CERN]] and [[Joint Institute for Nuclear Research|JINR]], died from the disease.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://atlas.ch/enews_1205.html |title=In Memoriam&nbsp;– Alexandru A. Marin (1945–2005) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070506222948/http://atlas.ch/enews_1205.html |archive-date=2007-05-06 |website=ATLAS eNews |date=December 2005 |access-date=5 November 2007}}</ref>
* 2006: [[Alan Coren]], British writer and satirist, announced in his Christmas column for ''[[The Times]]'' that his long absence as a columnist had been caused by his contracting the disease while on holiday in France.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/before-i-was-so-rudely-interrupted-3w79xsgvbgc|title=Before I was so rudely interrupted|first=Alan |last=Coren|newspaper=The Times|date=20 December 2006|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629104847/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article758463.ece<!--archive of old URL-->|archive-date=29 June 2011}}</ref>
* 2009: [[R. W. Johnson]], British journalist and historian, contracted the disease in March after injuring his foot while swimming. His leg was amputated above the knee.<ref>{{cite web |first=R. W. |last=Johnson |date=6 August 2009 |url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n15/john01_.html |title=Diary |work=London Review of Books |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803115050/http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n15/john01_.html |archive-date=2009-08-03 |page=41}}</ref>
* 2011: [[Jeff Hanneman]], guitarist for the thrash metal band [[Slayer]], contracted the disease. He died of liver failure two years later, on May 2, 2013, and it was speculated that his infection was the cause of death. However, on May 9, 2013, the official cause of death was announced as alcohol-related [[cirrhosis]]. Hanneman and his family had apparently been unaware of the extent of the condition until shortly before his death.<ref name="CauseOfDeath">{{cite web|title=Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman: Official Cause Of Death Revealed |url=http://blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=189736|website=Blabbermouth.net|access-date=10 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607175209/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=189736|archive-date=7 June 2013|date = 2013-05-09}}</ref>
* 2011: [[Peter Watts (author)|Peter Watts]], Canadian science fiction author, contracted the disease. On his blog, Watts reported, "I'm told I was a few hours away from being dead&nbsp;... If there was ever a disease fit for a science-fiction writer, flesh-eating disease has got to be it. This&nbsp;... spread across my leg as fast as a ''[[Star Trek]]'' space disease in time-lapse."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1831|title=The Plastinated Man|date=February 15, 2011|website=No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons|access-date=19 June 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620021826/http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1831|archive-date=20 June 2015}}</ref>
* 2013: British actress [[Georgie Henley]] revealed in 2022 that she had contracted the disease several weeks after starting at Cambridge University and that it had almost claimed her life.
* 2014: [[Daniel Gildenlöw]], Swedish singer and songwriter for the band [[Pain of Salvation]], spent several months in a hospital after being diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis on his back in early 2014. After recovering, he wrote the album ''[[In the Passing Light of Day]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Pain of Salvation To Release 'In The Passing Light Of Day' Album In January|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/pain-of-salvation-to-release-in-the-passing-light-of-day-album-in-january|website=Blabbermouth.net|access-date=18 July 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112183606/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/pain-of-salvation-to-release-in-the-passing-light-of-day-album-in-january|archive-date=2017-01-12|date=2016-11-10}}</ref> a concept album about his experience during the hospitalization.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pain of Salvation Frontman Daniel Gildenlöw On Recovering From Flesh-Eating Infection – 'I'm Lucky Compared To So Many Other People In This World'|url=http://bravewords.com/news/pain-of-salvation-frontman-daniel-gildenlow-on-recovering-from-flesh-eating-infection-im-lucky-compared-to-so-many-other-people-in-this-world|website=Brave Words|access-date=18 July 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111000648/http://bravewords.com/news/pain-of-salvation-frontman-daniel-gildenlow-on-recovering-from-flesh-eating-infection-im-lucky-compared-to-so-many-other-people-in-this-world|archive-date=2017-01-11}}</ref>
* 2014: Ricky Bartlett, CBS Radio Morning Host, had his left leg amputated. He got the disease during a trip to Wyoming and South Dakota, USA. He lost his right leg to bone disease (associated with the flesh eating disease he contacted) in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://canvasrebel.com/meet-ricky-bartlett/|title=Meet Ricky Bartlett|website=Canvas Rebel}}</ref>
* 2015: [[Edgar Savisaar]], Estonian politician, had his right leg amputated. He got the disease during a trip to Thailand.<ref>{{cite news |first=Risto |last=Mets |date=23 March 2015 |url=http://tartu.postimees.ee/3132097/edgar-savisaare-jalg-amputeeriti |title=Edgar Savisaare jalg amputeeriti |language=et |trans-title=Edgar Savisaar's leg amputated |work=Tartu Postimees |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326093016/http://tartu.postimees.ee/3132097/edgar-savisaare-jalg-amputeeriti |archive-date=2016-03-26 |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref>
* 2018: [[Alex Smith]], an American football quarterback for the [[Washington Commanders|Washington Football Team]] of the [[National Football League]] (NFL), contracted the disease after being injured during a game.<ref>{{cite web |first1=Elizabeth |last1=Smith |first2=Stephania |last2=Bell |date=May 1, 2020 |title=Alex Smith's comeback: Inside the fight to save the QB's leg and life|url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29112995/alex-smith-comeback-fight-save-qb-leg-life|website=ESPN|access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> He suffered an [[Open fracture|open compound fracture]] in his lower leg, which became infected.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/01/06/alex-smith-injury-timeline |last=Scott |first=Allen |date=January 6, 2021 |title=A timeline of Alex Smith's remarkable comeback – from life-threatening injury to the playoffs|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> Smith narrowly avoided amputation, and eventually returned to playing professional football in October 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/washington/2020/10/11/alex-smith-returns-nfl-washington-football-team-leg-injury/5961599002|first=Michael |last=Middlehurst-Schwartz|date=October 11, 2020|title=Alex Smith plays in first NFL game since gruesome leg injury in November 2018|website=USA Today|access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> Smith's injury and recovery is the subject of the [[ESPN]] documentary ''E60 Presents: Project 11''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2020/04/e60-documents-nfl-qb-alex-smiths-courageous-recovery-from-gruesome-leg-injury/|first=Andy|last=Hall|title=E60 Documents NFL QB Alex Smith's Courageous Recovery From Gruesome Leg Injury|website=ESPN Press Room|date=28 April 2020|access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref>
* 2021: Irish actor [[Barry Keoghan]] revealed in 2024 that he contracted NF shortly before filming ''[[The Banshees of Inisherin]]'' and nearly had his arm amputated.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pappademas |first=Alex |date=2024-01-09 |title=Saltburn's Barry Keoghan on Flirting With Jacob Elordi and Manifesting Stardom |url=https://www.gq.com/story/barry-keoghan-cover-story |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=GQ |language=en-US}}</ref>