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'I thought I was in Iraq'
Independent Online
AP An immigrant who had an arm and a leg amputated after surviving Norway's Utoeya massacre said Thursday he thought he was back in Iraq when he saw the carnage wrecked by Anders Behring Breivik last July. On the 24th day of Breivik's 10-week trial for ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Thousands of diabetics 'dying due to NHS failings'
Gulf Times
Widespread failings in NHS care for the growing number of diabetics lead to 24000 unnecessary deaths each year and many others suffering complications such as blindness and amputation, a damning report by the government's spending watchdog reveals.
East Anglia 'faring better than most' in diabetes postcode lotteryNorwich Evening News
Diabetes: 24000 Deaths A Year Blamed On NHS - World News NowSan Francisco Luxury News
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Free-spirited student battles for her life
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Her leg has been amputated at the hip. She's on a ventilator. Surgeons say she's likely to lose her hands and remaining foot. Her devastated family has kept a bedside vigil. Aimee contracted the bacteria – Aeromonas hydrophila – May 1 as she and ...

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ABC News
What is Flesh-Eating Bacteria?
LiveScience.com
A Georgia college student is in critical condition after getting infected by flesh-eating bacteria during a zip line accident last week. When the zip line broke, Aimee Copeland, 24, fell and cut her leg; she got stitches and went home to recover, ...
Free-spirited student battles for her life against bacterial infectionSpartanburg Herald Journal

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High court nixes appeals over shipwreck treasure
KTVN
One of her legs was amputated and her fingers will be...More >> Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago.

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Two years after bad car accident, Giants release Chad Jones
CBSSports.com (blog)
Unfortunately for him and his employer, he was in a bad car accident two months later in New Orleans that could have cost Jones his life and nearly cost him his foot. Ever since then, he's been rehabbing and working hard to resume the pro football ...

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SportsNOLA.com
Giants Waive Former LSU Star Chad Jones
SportsNOLA.com
Jones was a 2010 third-round pick who has spent the last two seasons on the non-football injury list following a car accident on June 25, 2010 in New Orleans. Jones survived the wreck but suffered multiple fractures and nerve damage in his lower left ...

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Life lessons: Hardin Valley student overcomes accident to graduate
Knoxville News Sentinel
To save his life, doctors amputated his left leg, but they were unsure if the teen would ever walk again. Nearly a month after the wreck, when he opened his eyes in the hospital, Sweet didn't know what had happened. But, he said, he knew his leg was ...

Wiedmer: Tributes clicking for Tony
Chattanooga Times Free Press
It's like having one of my limbs amputated. You adjust, but for a long time it still feels like they're there. And your life is never the same again." She soon realized, however, that she was far from the only one determined to remember Tony in a ...

Danny Crates tells his amazing story
Southend Standard
Crates's promising rugby career was ended in 1994, when he lost his right arm in a horrific car crash in Australia. Some 18 years later, the book looks back on a glittering athletics career with numerous highlights, including his Paralympic gold medal ...

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