A woman has said she's been left feeling "helpless" after her brother was struck down with an a flesh-eating disease while hundreds of miles way in Costa Rica.
Tanja Willis, 49, from Lancashire discovered her brother Colin Graw, 47, had been hospitalised in Costa Rica for days fighting off a flesh eating disease, LancsLive reports.
Doctors realised Colin was suffering from necrotising fasciitis, a rare but serious bacterial infection that affects the tissue beneath the skin and surrounding muscles and organs.
