A pensioner had her leg amputated after a tiny cat scratch left her with a horrifying flesh-eating infection. <br /><br />Fran Oborski, 79, from Kidderminster, Worcester was petting a stray ginger cat, nicknamed Jaffa, when it nicked her leg with its claw.<br /><br />She covered the 3cm (1in) scrape with antiseptic cream and put a plaster over it and thought nothing more about it.<br /><br />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.
