A woman died of flesh-eating bacteria she contracted from Hurricane Harvey floodwaters.
Nancy Reed died on Sept. 15 after a tear in her skin resulted in a necrotizing faciitis infection, an autopsy report revealed. Necrotizing faciitis is popularly known as the flesh-eating disease. The disease infected the 77-year-old woman after she fell and broke her arm at her son’s home, the Houston Chronicle reported.
