Grandad Beats Three Deadly Illnesses ; a Great-Grandfather From Plymouth Is On the Road to Recovery After Winning an Amazing Battle Against Three Potentially Lethal Illnesses Including a Flesh-Eating Superbug.

Plymouth Evening Herald, The › October 14, 2008

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A GREAT-grandfather from Plymouth is on the road to recovery after winning an amazing battle against three potentially lethal illnesses including a flesh-eating superbug.

Roy York, aged 80, was diagnosed with cancer, contracted deadly flesh-eater necrotizing fasciitis, and then was hit with a dose of MRSA.

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Grandad Beats Three Deadly Illnesses ; a Great-Grandfather From Plymouth Is On the Road to Recovery After Winning an Amazing Battle Against Three Potentially Lethal Illnesses Including a Flesh-Eating Superbug.

He spent two months in Derriford Hospital and underwent seven operations, five of which were to fight the flesh-eating superbug.

Surgeons had to cut away all his abdominal muscles to stop the ...

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