Report: Teen Who Battled Flesh-Eating Disease Returns to Whitman
Bethesda teen contracted disease in July while vacationing near a California lake.
Alexis Hanford, a Bethesda teen who contracted a flesh-eating disease, has returned to Walt Whitman High School to take classes part-time, The Gazette reports. The teen contracted a strain of necrotizing fasciitis after cutting her leg in a California lake while on vacation in July, according to the report. Though doctors successfully eradicated the infection, the former athelete remains in a wheelchair and will need to learn to walk again, The Washington Post reported. Hanford endured 17 surgeries to cut away dead skin and muscle and the teen will likely walk with a leg brace for the rest of her life, according to The Gazette. Hanford is taking two classes -- independent study and computer programming -- and hopes to begin taking pre-…
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