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Student fights flesh-eating bacteria after zip line fall
[Updated at 3:57 p.m. ET] A University of West Georgia graduate psychology student is fighting for her life with flesh-eating bacteria after falling off a homemade zip line and cutting her leg, CNN affiliates WSB report and WXIA report.
Aimee Copeland, 24, fell off a homemade zip line near a friend’s home in Carroll County, Georgia, on May 1. Doctors at a hospital in Augusta were forced to amputate most of her right leg on Friday after the bacteria destroyed her leg muscles and moved into other parts of her body. She stopped breathing and at one point and had to be resuscitated, her father, Andy Copeland, told WSB.
On Thursday, Andy Copeland told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that her hands and her remaining foot also will have to be amputated.
But he said she was showing improvement at a hospital in Augusta and was "extremely responsive, coherent and alert" on Thursday, the AJC reported.
The AJC reported that Copeland contracted Aeromonas hydrophila in the deep gash in her leg after the zip line broke.
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If only she had watched the South Park episode "I should have never gone zip lining" this tragedy could have been avoided. Shame.
What an A$S7ole you are. That is someone's daughter. You POS.
What do you call a girl with one amputated leg? Peg...
kendra ... what do you call a chick spewing sick jokes? FUNNY!!!
Great, a girl is dying and we get second grader jokes from a sociopath. Hilarious.
not really a "common" bacteria, it could've been resistant to some antibiotics they tried, and once the infection gets into the bloodstream it's a pain in the butt to treat successfully
We are all pointing to the zip line accident but there is also a chance she may have contracted the desease at the hospital. I am 100% sure there is more to this story than what's on this article. There is no way anyone including a doctor would assume right away she got that desease! She probably went to the ER or seomthing to treat the wound then went home before falling very ill 24-48 hrs later. I would argue that the odds of her catching this bacteria at the hospital as they were treating her initial wounds is far greater than her contracting it at the time of accident.
Aeromonas hydrophila is a common water bacterium and infections from it are usually associated with trauma, especially water-contaminated wounds. It is rarely seen in hospital acquired infections. Probably got it during her accident, not from the hospital.
Really? Mangle your leg in a bacteria-ridden pool of water but the infection occurred in the hospital? Geez.
She's not dead... she'll live... she may not look the same... but she'll do...
She probably got this from her mom...
"Aimee", age 24, made a homemade zip line? Why wasn't she working? Don't work? Get a bacterial infection.
Turns out some people can do things before/after work or don't work a standard M-F week. I had hobbies while I was working and going to grad school, I'm sure she's capable of the same.
Aimee did not make the zip line, it was already there. Also, Aimee has a job as well as a full course load in graduate school. Get a clue.
She was just shy of getting her masters degree in psychology to help idiots like you!!!!!! LOSER!!!
She'll still dance better than Bristol Palin.
Most certainly she'll still think better than Bristol Palin. Almost everyone does.
What is WITH some of these posters?!? This is a HORRIBLE tragedy, a lingering and painful death, a lingering and painful experience for family and friends. And people are making jokes?!? PLEASE, GOD, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, give thse jokesters just a TASTE of the horror and pain this girl and family are goin gthrough, and then, when said jokesters are in their most needy state, have people treat them, not only with indifference, as amusement. Increasingly typical, too, of young people today to pretend to be unfeeling, cold-blooded, and hard, like so many wanna-be gangsta types, or pseudo-psychos, or whatever. They are in for a TON of pain in life if they keep this nonsense up...
There is no God. Fool. This bacteria thrives in chlorinated pools!! Your GOD made it that way. Happy Camping.
Hmm... Maybe we should stop treating everything under the sun with antibiotics.
There are so many stupid and dumb comments in these blogs! Are Americans just that dumb? It seems that way.....
Seems like all these mean comments are coming from mean spirited republicans!