What is the disease? Gas Gangrene is a very horrific disease and causes many deaths and injuries.

... What is the disease? Gas Gangrene is a very horrific disease and causes many deaths and injuries. Gangrene is defined as the destruction of tissue, which cuts the blood off to an affected part of the body because of an infection, vascular disease or trauma. The most commonly affected parts of the body are the extremities (feet, leg, hands). Gangrene is also known as clostridial gangrene and clostridial myonecrosis. Causes Gas gangrene is the most life threatening form of gangrene. It occurs were a wound is open to bacterial spores, which mainly are clostridium. These bacteria enter the wound and rest. Clostridium is an anaerobic bacterium, which means the bacteria, grows best in the absence of oxygen. Because human tissue contains a lot of oxygen the bacteria is rarely bothered, but when they clostridia grow, they release gases and poisons into the body. This then will cause infection of gangrene and possibly death.

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