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Question

Can you get flesh-eating bacteria from eating unwashed fruit, well it was from the grocery store, but still? What are the immediate symptoms? I Live in BC, CANADA.

Answer 1

No, you cannot. You're more likely to get a bit of insecticide in your GI tract. Group A Strep skin infection symptoms would involve the skin and depend on where the infection is. This scenario is so unlikely and unreasonable there's no reason to list the symptoms!

Answer 2

The flesh eating bacteria (necrotizing fasciitis) is a Group A streptococcus.

Group A streptococcus is a bacterium often found in the throat and on the skin, rather than on unwashed fruit. People may carry group A streptococci in the throat or on the skin and have no symptoms of illness, so if you think you have necrotizing fasciitis, you most likely caught it from an acquaintance, or someone you came into contact with.

Early signs and symptoms of necrotizing fasciitis include fever, severe pain and swelling and redness at the wound site.

Eating unwashed fruit is associated with other bacterial illnesses, for example, E coli, 0157 H7.

Answer 3

Flesh eating disease is usually caused by a strep bacteria.

Can you get it from unwashed fruit? I guess its a possibility.
If somone were to just spit on it and then you pick it up and then rub it on an open area of your skin. Strep is common in the throat of humans, so its possible to get it by kissing, well if someone kissed an area of unbroken skin.

Im not sure how long strep will live on surfaces, but its a rare, very rare possibility that it can happen.

Answer 4

Streptococcal pyogenese is a bacterial infection of the skin, but if they reach deeper tissues, they they can be highly destructive. They spread by contact and enter the skin through a cut or abrasion.

Answer 5

No...probably more likely to get it if you have diabetes or some other condition that depresses the immune system.