Gym-goer recalls having arm amputated after botched bicep curl left him in coma

A man has described how his arm was amputated after his arm became infected with a flesh-eating bug following a bicep injury.

Gabriel McKenna-Lieschke tore his bicep lifting a 50kg weight. After he had surgery to reattach his muscle, he contracted the rare bacterial infection necrotising fasciitis and was put into an induced coma for 10 days.

The gym-goer said that his arm had to be amputated as the infection was so aggressive that it was eating the flesh of his lower arm.

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