Australian gardener becomes first person to survive deadly flesh-eating bacteria

Woman treated with antibiotics and hyperbaric oxygen therapy to survive infection by pathogen that causes blackleg disease in cattle and sheep

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An Australian woman has became the first documented person in the world to survive a pathogen that is usually the cause of the deadly blackleg" disease in cattle and sheep.

The woman's doctors this week published the case in the Medical Journal of Australia, detailing the successful treatment of the pathogen, after the only other two known cases in humans - one in the US and the other in Japan - had proved fatal.

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