The rise of necrotising fasciitis

The deadly “flesh-eating disease” is on the increase in New Zealand – and it’s proving tricky to diagnose.

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17th December, 2011

When Mania Regler heard a Subaru being driven along the Upper Hutt street where her family lives, she knew it was likely to be her eldest son, Royden, coming home. “You’d think, ‘Here he comes’, and he’d park up, put his head around the door, smile and say, ‘Hi, what’s going on?’” Mania recalls. Now, sitting with her husband, Pat, in the family’s modest home, she says in the past two and a half years she has learnt when she hears the sound of a Subaru to think “it’s not coming here”. Royden Regler will never again walk through the door of the family home. While ...

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