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Flowery Branch woman hospitalized with flesh-eating bacteria
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Flowery Branch woman Tamika Compton is being treated for a flesh-eating bacteria at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.
A Flowery Branch woman is hospitalized at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville after being diagnosed with flesh-eating bacteria. Tamika Compton, 25, is in fair condition, though she already has lost large portions of her arm to the bacteria and has undergone multiple surgeries, according to her sister Tiandra Compton. “She was having some pain in her arm,” Tiandra Compton said.