Play stupid games and all that...
When I was in high school, the big dare these days was "subway surfing", and a lot of dumbass kids fell off from the roofs of moving trains. Then, with "Whirrlstar" being the new coolest thing, the challenge evolved to people clinging to the train doors after they had closed and riding on the outside while somebody films from inside the car. Once again, Darwin got lucky quite a few times.
Back to this story though, this is the first time I had heard of a Salmonella infection behaving in this fashion. "Rotting from the inside" literally sounds like pneumonic plague or Ebola. Did the doctors not put him on antibiotics until it was way too late? No I ain't gonna go eat a fucking gecko but this seems to raise a few questions here...