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Woman tells how she had her leg amputated after she developed an infection while shaving

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A mum was forced to have her leg amputated when it became infected with a flesh-eating bug - after she cut it SHAVING.

Tanya Czernozukow, 43, thought nothing of it when she nicked her right shin with a razor and ignored it when it turned into a scab the size of a 5p coin.

But six months later it tripled in size until it was a "huge hole" and doctors spent 18 months trying to stop the aggressive infection from spreading up her thigh.

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