A Connecticut man was forced to have his leg amputated after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria, according to reports.
There, doctors conducted tests revealing revealed that he had become infected with a type of bacteria that causes a disease known as necrotizing fasciitis. This rare, potentially fatal infection is caused by several different types of bacteria that move rapidly through the body, attacking the skin and soft tissue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "It's all because of a little cut. It's all it was, a little cut.
"All I can say is that I am by far one of the luckiest men in the whole world, by far," Kagan said."I don't know how I made it, but I did. I've got 20, 25 years left on this Earth. I'm going to make it good. That's what I'm going to do." Necrotizing fasciitis is rare, occurring in only about 0.4 people per 100,000 every year in the U.S., according to a study published in the journalNevertheless, a doctor at the hospital, Joseph Glassford Garner, said the number of cases is rising.