Ga. student fights to survive flesh-eating bacterial infection Pictures This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old University of West Georgia graduate student fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg, her right foot and both hands. The infection, necrotizing fasciitis, occurred after she gashed her leg following a zip line accident on a Georgia river May 1, 2012. After spending weeks in a Ga. hospital as doctors tried to stop the infection's spread, Copeland was finally able to breathe on her own last week and can now speak, her father Andy said Monday May 28, 2012. Credit: AP Photo/Copeland Family