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Caroline Fonjock, a social worker, almost died from necrotising fasciitis, a rare, rapidly spreading infection. She spent two weeks in a coma at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, needing emergency surgery to remove part of her leg. Her case now helps Addenbrooke's researchers improve how this condition, with a one in four chance of death, is identified.
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