Flesh Eating Bacteria: nom…nom (Warning graphic pictures)

So many of you might have had a staph infection before, or at least most of us had at least once had a hair follicle infection, you know the ones..the little red bumps at the base of your hair follicle that get a little tender.  But how many of you knew that the bacteria which lives commonly on our skin is actually a variety of staphylococcus bacteria…the flesh eating bacteria?  Group A staphylococcus bacteria can cause mild infections to toxic shock syndrome or even  necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating disease).  Sounds like something out of a zombie movie right?  The pictures below are not for the faint of heart!  More strains of antibiotic resistant staphylococcus are popping up.  This means that we have less and less ways to treat these cases of flesh eating diseases or toxic shock syndrome.