New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Flesh-eat ing disease horror I’VE NEV ER KNOWN PAIN LIKE IT

When Amy Kilgour popped an ingrown hair near her groin one morning in August, the last thing she imagined was that it would cause her to catch a deadly flesh-eating disease.

But after being diagnosed with necrotising fasciitis, a serious bacterial infection, the Christchurch local is recovering from 10 life-saving surgeries that cut away 10 kilos of destroyed flesh.

“The doctors said I would’ve died if I’d left

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