It's because I am going to be a nurse John...I study these things you know...well that and I watch House all the time...they seem to have diseases like that popping up all the time on those medical shows...so if it's on t.v. it must be real...I figure. Some guy had necrotizing fasciitis on a House episode I saw...so that must be what you have! I think I can remember the treatment...we just have to cut off some of your limbs before it spreads...