Therapy for the flesh-eating-bacteria phobic?

GIANTmicrobes, my new favorite company in Canada, makes a Necrotizing Fasciitis plush toy!!!! This is the closest you'll ever want to get to this scary disease, which is popularly known as "flesh-eating bacteria."

Since reading Atul Gawande’s harrowing account in “Complications” of treating a woman who got the deadly bacteria while dancing barefoot in grass at a wedding, it’s topped my personal phobia list. Well, the New England Journal of Medicine reported earlier this month that drug-resistant staph infections are not only on the rise outside of their usual health-care facility milieu, but they’ve acquired flesh-eating capabilities, too. The bacteria claimed another victim just today, a 10-year-old girl in the Bronx.

Topix.net keeps an up-to-date compendium of flesh-eating-bacteria news from around the world. There’s even a National Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation, through which survivors of the disease can get together and socialize.

I need a hug.