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'Rose bush wound' causes fingertips loss

A man says he "can't do anything" with his hands after a scratch from a rose bush led to him contracting a "flesh-eating disease" and losing some of his fingertips.

Philip Pike, 59, from Cambridgeshire, says he caught necrotising fasciitis after falling into a rose in his garden while having a water fight with his children.

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