I got a flesh-eating bug from a spider bite: Jogger almost dies as tiny 負傷させる becomes 感染させるd

• Hannah White, 29, was bitten while doing 圧力（をかける）-ups in London park
• Doctors said she would die unless they 除去するd part of her thigh
• But miraculously she managed to fight off the 感染 自然に
  

By Eleanor Harding for the Daily Mail

Published: 03:49 BST, 17 November 2012 | Updated: 03:49 BST, 17 November 2012

'It was very 脅すing': Hannah White (pictured) nearly died from a flesh-eating bug after 存在 bitten by a spider in her 地元の park

A jogger almost died after 存在 bitten by a spider and 感染させるd with a deadly bug.

Hannah White, 29, was doing 圧力（をかける）-ups in her 地元の park when the spider bit her 権利 thigh. Within days, her 脚 had swollen to twice its normal size.

The 条件 was 原因（となる）d by a rare flesh-eating bug, which entered her b ody 経由で the spider bite 負傷させる.

Doctors told 行方不明になる White she would die unless they 除去するd part of her thigh, which could have left her 無能にするd for life. But, miraculously, she managed to fight off the 感染 自然に.

Her 事例／患者 follows that of Natalie Hemme, who almost lost an arm when she was bitten by a 世帯 spider.

回復するing in hospital yesterday, 行方不明になる White, a 放送者 who worked on the sailing events at this summer’s Olympics, said she was lucky to be alive. She assumed the bite was from a mosquito when it appeared after she 演習d in Regent’s Park, London, eight days ago.

But by the に引き続いて day, it began to swell, with the redness spreading 負かす／撃墜する her 脚. She went to her 地元の NHS 減少（する）-in centre, which 定める／命ずるd 抗生物質s, but when the swelling became unbearable her parents took her to A&E.

Doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital in London were baffled, 初めは 診断するing an abscess. They 監視するd the swelling every two hours and gave 抗生物質s 静脈内の. But by Monday morning, they realised she had all the symptoms of necrotising fasciitis, an 感染 that eats away at human flesh.

‘It was very 脅すing,’ said 行方不明になる White, who spent seven years competing as a professional sailor.

‘One minute it was just a bite and then the next minute I’m in A&E. It looked as if it would have been 外科 or death.

‘They told me, “You can’t kill it with 麻薬s, the only way to get rid of it is to 削減（する） it out”.’

Life-脅すing: Hannah's 負傷させる 24 hours (left) and 36 hours (権利) after the bite in Regent's Park

Miraculous 回復: Doctors said Hannah (left, 48 hours after the bite) would die unless they 除去するd part of her 脚, but as seen here (権利) the 感染 回復するd natur 同盟（する）

But before doctors could operate, the swelling began to 沈下する. By yesterday, the 感染 was all but （疑いを）晴らすd up and 行方不明になる White was 準備するing to go home.

‘I’m a 医療の marvel. The doctors couldn’t believe it,’ she said. Doctors said she must have an 極端に strong 免疫の system, as the bug kills up to a ４半期/4分の1 of those 感染させるd.

‘They said that because I’m fit and strong my 団体／死体 must have stopped the bacteria getting 絶対の 持つ／拘留する of me,’ 行方不明になる White said. ‘My 団体／死体 has been fighting it all week ? I’m exhausted.

‘It’s 絶対 amazing that all this happened just because of a spider bite. I’ve travelled the world doing 潜在的に dangerous things and I’ve been 罰金. I can’t believe that this has happened to me here at home in London.’

On Thursday, civil servant Mrs Hemme, 31, from South-West London, told the Daily Mail how she developed compartment syndrome, 原因（となる）ing the flesh on her arm to die, after she was bitten as she slept.