Alert in Japan for a rare infection, "flesh-eating disease" - Medicine. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has issued a "warning" over rising cases of a rare but serious type of bacterial infection.
To date they have surpassed more than half of last year's tally - 88 in the capital alone - along with 517 infections nationwide. Concerns over the spread of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) reportedly prompted North Korea to cancel a soccer match with Japan that was due to take place in Pyongyang.