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May 17th, 2012
06:58 AM ET

Flesh-eating bacteria strikes new mom in South Carolina after giving birth – Elizabeth Cohen explains

There's a second chilling diagnosis of a flesh-eating bacterial infection. Lana Kuykendall, a 36-year-old new mother in South Carolina, contracted the rare flesh-eating bacteria shortly after giving birth this month to twins.

It comes as a Georgia grad student, 24-year-old Aimee Copeland, fights for her life after being infected.

Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen explains how the new case was contracted.


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