Georgia student likely to lose fingers to flesh-eating infection

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia college student who has already lost a leg to a rare, flesh-eating bacterial infection is now expected to suffer the loss of her fingers too, her father said. Aimee Copeland, 24, was kayaking and zip-lining along the Little Tallapoosa River near Carrollton, Georgia, on May 1 when the line broke and she sustained a cut to her calf. Emergency room doctors closed the wound with 22 staples and released Copeland, a graduate student at West Georgia University. ... Read more