Vanessa Carter survived an accident in 2004 that left her face disfigured, but the real horror came with reconstructive surgery. In 2010, after receiving an implant to connect her nose and cheekbone, she felt a strange dampness. Her face was rotting.
A bacterium called MRSA was “eating” her face alive. Vanessa regularly took antibiotics, which made the bacteria immune to the drugs. The collapse of the right side of her face was total and nearly fatal. Carter spent 3 years under extreme Vancomycin treatment and a decade of surgeries to avoid dying.
Today she is an activist who warns that the misuse of antibiotics can turn a routine surgery into a bacterial butchery.
