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Bangor man warns of rare flesh-eating infection that killed his wife days after childbirth

BANGOR — Matt Nichols cradled his newborn daughter, Ruby Ann, in his arms Wednesday morning, gazing into her sleeping face. When Matt, 29, accompanied his pregnant wife to Eastern Maine Medical Center on Aug. 1, he said he never could have imagined he’d raise their first child on his own after a vicious infection claimed […]