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Perhaps you've heard about Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old adventurer who contracted a flesh-eating disease after getting injured in a zip line accident over the Tallapoosa River. She's already los...
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System
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2020-04-17T22:22:58Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/q/1497 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#1: Initial revision
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samthebrand
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2020-04-17T22:22:58Z (over 4 years ago)
<p>Perhaps you've heard about <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/student-flesh-eating-disease-lose-limbs/story?id=16326722#.T61uSOtYuSo">Aimee Copeland</a>, the 24-year-old adventurer who contracted a flesh-eating disease after getting injured in a zip line accident over the Tallapoosa River. She's already lost her leg to the rare disease, and doctors say she may lose her hands and remaining foot.</p> <p>I understand that this disease is extremely rare and nearly impossible to predict when considering all the things that may go wrong during an outdoor outing. But what could Copeland have done following the zip line accident that may have prevented her from contracting the disease? What can someone like you or me do to make sure it doesn't happen to us?</p>