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What Is Necrotizing Fasciitis? Woman Diagnosed With Flesh-Eating Disease After Giving Birth

Lindsey Hubley was diagnosed with a deadly flesh-eating infection — necrotizing fasciitis — days after giving birth to a boy at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A lawsuit filed by her against the hospital alleges her placenta wasn’t removed completely post her delivery, which could have possibly caused the fatal infection causing her to lose all her limbs.

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