AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sat, May 12) – There are heartening signs for Aimee Copeland,
student of University of West Georgia, whose freak zip-lining accident led to a
flesh-eating bacteria infection that's kept her on life support for days.
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| Signs of improvement for Aimee Copeland, victim of flesh-eating bacteria |
The 24-year-old Aimee Copeland is at Doctor's Hospital in Augusta where the
flesh-eating bacteria has already cost her one leg. Doctors and her family
members fear to have more loss like her other leg as and both hands.
The infection began after Copeland went through surgery in which surgeon cut
her leg last week. Copeland got injured when a homemade zip line over a Carrollton
River broke, resulted in a wound in her leg due to fall in the water. She had frequent
visits to a a local hospital due to severe pain.
She has been in serious condition since Friday, when she was diagnosed with
the rare flesh-eating infection. Surgeons cut her left leg and also removed
infected tissue from her abdomen hoping to stop the bacteria from spreading.
She is still on life support at an Augusta burn unit.
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