Woman had leg amputated after tiny cat scratch led to horror infection

A pensioner had her leg amputated after a tiny cat scratch left her with a horrifying flesh-eating infection. Fran Oborski, 79, from Kidderminster, Worcester was petting a stray ginger cat, nicknamed Jaffa, when it nicked her leg with its claw. She covered the 3cm (1in) scrape with antiseptic cream and put a plaster over it and thought nothing more about it. But weeks later her leg started to ache and when she went to her GP she was told she had contracted cellulitis – a flesh eating bacterial infection.