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Strong antibiotics are pumped into the veins of people who have flesh-eating bacteria. Working together with surgical treatment, the antibiotics combat the flesh-eating bacteria by fighting the current infection and helping to prevent the spread of flesh-eating bacteria. However, there isn't a medication that can undue the damage already wrought by flesh-eating bacteria.
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