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• s  (of animals) carnivorous

• This is not bird flu or SARS or even the "flesh-eating bacteria" of tabloid fame.
• Severe invasive group a streptococcus is the official scientific name, but labels like "deadly flesh-eating bacteria" can be too deliciously terrifying to resist.
• What do jock itch, poison gas and flesh-eating bacteria have in common? Gregory Schultz, 56, thinks he has the answer.

• meat-eating
• zoophagous

News & Articles

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• Redrum! Scary midnight movies to shine at Curtis Hixon
  A haunted hotel. Flesh-eating zombies. Demonic possession. Finally the city may be onto something in its never ending quest to breathe life into downtown Tampa after dark.
  June 12, 2013 - St. Petersburg Times Blogs
• AMS falls victim to zombie attack
  HAMPTON — Life balloons littered the Atlanta Motor Speedway grounds Saturday morning as thousands of runners eventually succumbed to flesh-eating creatures during the Zombie 5K Run.
  June 12, 2013 - Henry Daily Herald

Quotes

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• Tony Burke in Sydney Morning Herald
  There's a reason why mulesing was introduced in the first place,Mr Burke said. "There is no good animal welfare outcome in a sheep being eaten to death by flesh-eating maggots."
• Eric Karros in MLB.com
  If anything positive came out of the experience, I think he just slowed down a little bit,Karros said. "He learned to appreciate things more than he did before the incident. Let's put it this way: Who gets a flesh-eating disease? Where did...