Man’s consumed by flesh-eating bug which ate fifth of his body- (Viewers Discretion advised)

Jacob Rothe had to have 20% of his body cut off after he developed the skin rotting disease necrotizing fasciitis (NF) last year.

On October 14, 2014, he entered a local hospital in Rolla, Missouri, where he lives, for relatively simple surgery to cure his acid reflux.

But the dad-of-four did not wake up and his oxygen levels started to fall. And after green pus started seeping from his wounds he underwent a second round of surgery.
"Doctors opened me up and noticed a tear on my small intestine," he said. "They packed me up and it was assumed I was better."

Within hours the 36-year-old started to become alarmingly ill and he was airlifted to a larger hospital in Columbia, Missouri, 100 miles away.
It was there that medics realised he was being eaten alive by NF and they began urgently cutting the diseased flesh away.

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Jacob said:”The doctor who looked after me was a war vet and had seen examples of NF before so he knew what it was.
"But he said he hadn't seen anything so severe. He was alarmed at how quickly it was spreading.
"He contacted my mother Valerie and told her, 'We're getting him into surgery. We can't wait for you to get here.'"

Jacob, who works in sales, said: "I was suffering from delusions. I thought the nurse and security guard were in cahoots and were trying to kill me.
"I remember thinking that I had woken on the surgery table and was being held hostage and they were cutting off bits of my skin to send as ransom.

"I though, 'What about if they get to my privates?’”
In the end medics cut away nearly a fifth of his body including his leg, buttocks and right hand side.
There were discussions that they would have to slice off his genitals, but thankfully they were saved.
He said: “I’m so pleased. I was in hospital nearly a month and nearly passed.

"Doctors and family thought I would die. But I was saved."

After the infection was cut out, Jacob had surgery on his head and back and skin was grafted from these areas onto the wounds on his body.

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