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Daily Mirror
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Dami Adewale & Hannah Van De Peer & Chiara Fiorillo

New mum catches flesh-eating virus just a week after giving birth with no complications

A new mum contracted a rare and deadly flesh-eating disease just a week after giving birth with no complications.

Charleigh Chatterton, 27, welcomed her daughter Alessia on April 22 with no initial complications.

But six days later she developed a huge rash across her abdomen which eventually turned into necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease with a mortality rate between 11 and 22 per cent.

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