Lynn Fleming contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while walking on a beach in Florida. Photo / Facebook
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A beachgoing Florida woman has died days after she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria through a cut in her leg.
Lynn Fleming of Ellenton, Florida, was with her son and his wife two weeks ago at Coquina Beach, which is near Tampa and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
As she walked along the beach, she stepped into a small depression that she couldn't see because it was underwater.
Fleming suffered what seemed to be a harmless cut in her leg.
Different bacteria can cause necrotising fasciitis.
Necrotising fasciitis can be caused by group-A streptococci or by staphylococci, common bacteria that live on people's skin and in their noses, according to medical officials.