34-year-old mortgage loan officer Oliver Johnson has flesh-eating disease
Got this from Scott Loughrey.

Friends of Oliver Johnson said his doctors at the Queen’s Medical Center diagnosed him with necrotizing fasciitis, a Group A streptococcal infection that “destroys muscles, fat and skin tissue,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The disease forced the amputation of his left leg above the knee Monday, his friends said. His body also went into Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome, which causes blood pressure to drop rapidly and all major organs to fail, they said.

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