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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Amy Fenton & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Woman given less than 1% survival chance after flesh-eating bug destroys limbs

A young woman who was told she had less than a 1% chance of survival after catching a flesh-eating disease has spoken of her brave recovery.

Emma Doherty was rushed to hospital and placed in an induced coma in February 2021 after doctors discovered she had sepsis, a life-threatening blood infection.

Her coma lasted for 39 days, during which time she says doctors advised her mum Marie on several occasions to approve switching off her life support.

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