Calling strep pyogenes “flesh eating bacteria” is fear mongering. This is the strep throat bacteria. Not good to have by any means, but you’re not getting necrotizing fasciitis just because you come into contact with S. pyogenes.
- S. Pyogenes can objectively cause nec fasc and toxic shock syndrome, both of which are life threatening. 20-30% of NEC fasc is Type 2 which is primarily S. Pyogenes or Staph.
  S.Pyogenes is also one of the main bacteria that cause type 1 nec fasc which is around 70% of cases.
  Calling it 'just strep throat bacteria' is inaccurate.
  
  Necrotizing fasciitis isn’t what’s occurring in Japan. Those points you make are not wrong but they’re not applicable to what’s happening. Referring to what’s happening there as an outbreak of “flesh eating bacteria” is incorrect. That’s not the disease that’s occurring. If they were trying to be accurate rather than sensational, they’d say its a bacteria that causes toxic shock syndrome. It’s also literally due to more sore throat cases: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-warns-surge-potentially-deadly-strep-throat-cases-2024-03-26/
  Across the country, infections of streptococcus bacteria of the throat are being diagnosed at quadruple the pace of the past five years, according to a health ministry report earlier this month.
  Through March 10, Japan recorded 474 cases of the more serious streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (SSTS), which has a fatality rate of up to 30%. This syndrome happens when the infection spreads throughout the body, potentially causing organ failure.
I remember not that long ago hearing about a spread of a new disease spreading across a nation. I said "Ah, it's fine. It'll be contained, and nobody will even remember it.....
8 months later the world was shut down.
- Except these bacteria are nothing new.
  
  What is new is that the bacteria is becoming more predominate.
- Would you like some extra mongering with your fear today?
  
  Okay sir....tell me when...
- Texas has had these for a while, similar fearmongering then too
The "good" thing about it killing rapidly is there is less chance of it spreading. So I would not expect another global pandemic from it.
Although the bad thing is still that if you do get it, your chances of survival aren't good...
- God, I hope it doesn’t spread, because then people will keep saying global pandemic.
  Pandemic already means global.
  It’s like saying Mariachi Band, or ATM Machine.
  
  For what it's worth, I always prefer being redundant if it makes the meaning clearer to a non-native speaker audience.
  For instance I didn't know "pandemic" implicitly meant "global". In my ignorance I thought you could have a localized pandemic. But by saying "global pandemic" it makes it more obvious to everyone, including those who, like me, didn't know.
  Also I'll personally keep saying "my phone had an LCD display" because it feels smoother than "my phone has a LCD".
  
  Smh my head
  
  (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
  “An area” could be a country, a Canadian pandemic is possible just as a global pandemic is.
  
  Pandemic already means global.
  No it doesn't.
Oh shit, Bloomberg found us out! Cancel the robot uprising! The humans know!
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