article_snippet.sent: Eight months later when Mason was admitted to hospital to have Mason colostomy removed Mason nearly lost Mason life to a dangerous flesh-eating virus.
article_snippet.sent: a dangerous flesh-eating virus perforated Mason bowel and ate tissue from Mason chest cavity. '
article_snippet.sent: Eight months later when Mason was admitted to hospital to have his colostomy removed Mason nearly lost his life to a dangerous flesh-eating virus .
article_snippet.sent: Fortunately, Mason recovered from a dangerous flesh-eating virus.
article_snippet.sent: The infection had eaten all the tissue in Mason's chest and abdomen, leaving his fighting for his life .
article_snippet.sent: Mason had contracted necrotising fasciitis, a serious rapidly spreading infection that results in death of tissue. '
article_snippet.sent: It can be fatal if symptoms go undetected - approximately 25 per cent of patients with necrotising fasciitis and more than 30 per cent with streptococcal toxic shock syndrome die,' Fionnagh Dougan, Chief Executive of Children's Health Queensland, told Daily Mail Australia. '
article_snippet.sent: A combination of bacteria caused Mason's case of necrotising fasciitis.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Newborn had contracted a flesh-eating virus which almost claimed Mason life .
  