Flesh eating Bacteria kills Fisherman!

[bababooey]

Almost too bizarre to be true.


Beware Ocean Swimming - Man Dies from Flesh eating Bacteria while fishing.

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/07/...to-open-wound/

A Louisiana man died after contracting flesh-eating bacteria while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Town Talk reports the bacteria known as Vibria vulnificus – which is found in warm seawater – killed the 83-year-old man after his open wound got infected when water splashed on him during a fishing trip.

“It thrives in warm water,” Dr. Tina Stefanski of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals told KATC-TV. “So, you can imagine in the summer months we see an increased number of this type of bacteria in warm salt water.”

[robmedina]

jeesh, I just read about a norovirus people caught while doing a endurance mud race. what the eff!

[baitstealer]

Scarey!!!!!!!

[dogfish]

That is some nasty stuff. Glad that the water usually doesn't get that warm up here to support those viruses.

[finchaser]

red blotches on bass up here are know to be a form of it referred as fish handlers disease

[Pebbles]

About 10 years ago, my son was going to a class and a child's mother died from that. It started on her leg and within a week she was dead. Live in Westfield.