Are You At Risk of Getting a Flesh-Eating Bacteria?

A doctor weighs in

Aimee Copeland shared her remarkable story of survival with Katie after losing all of her limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria. We spoke with Dr. Kent Sepkowitz, Director of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Infection Control Program and a specialist in diagnosing and caring for those with flesh-eating bacteria, about how rare the condition really is.