Toddler almost died after bout of chickenpox turned into horrific flesh-eating bug that almost destroyed his neck

Charlie Cave, (pictured) from Kempston, Bedfordshire, was just 13-months-old when he developed the early stages of the secondary flesh-eating infection. 


He was put into an induced coma. The infection took over his neck, (inset, bottom) causing it to go black, and his poorly body also had to fight off the life-threatening blood-poisoning disease sepsis. After Charlie's heart rate reached 227 beats per minute his parents, Alan and Becky, were told to expect the worst ahead of a seven hour operation.

[UK Dailymail]