Flesh-eating bacteria devour man’s arm and leg in just three days
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So how long before the administration starts advocating the health benefits of swimming in brackish water with open wounds and an entire industry springs up suggesting the right way to create said wounds, the right tools available for only $99.99 with free shipping, and how you, too, can have brackish water shipped direct for use in the privacy of your own bathtub?
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Which means readers are more likely to have "ammunition."
I like the way you think!
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The recommendation to avoid being infected with flesh-eating bacteria is never eat sushi?
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As someone who fishes a bunch in gulf of mexico, this really worries me. I get many small scratches on me and am always paranoid heading to the beach to surf fish or fishing in the bay. Vibrio is not just in brackish water, but is also in warm coastal water.
I can often poke myself with a hook or hurt myself on the water as well.
There are tons of people out there though, and these news stories are few and far between, however it still registers on the radar as an active fear every time i go wade fishing.
I can often poke myself with a hook or hurt myself on the water as well.
There are tons of people out there though, and these news stories are few and far between, however it still registers on the radar as an active fear every time i go wade fishing.
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No, just restrict it to countries with functional public health systems. So not the US.
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I think the part of the art of preparing sushi is avoiding the intestines of fish.
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Just before they sell Yellowstone to a Trump crony to turn into an all natural spa. Bathe in their naturally heated pools of boiling water to improve health and longevity!
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My God. Thank you for an injection of nightmares directly into my lizard brain.
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We had a case of this where a young fitness trainer in our county died from this.
I knew the young woman’s mother, and it was tragic to hear her describe the scene at the hospital.
She hadn’t traveled recently, and this is in Southern California. There’s really no freshwater lakes to swim around here. They retraced her steps a few days weeks before this, and checked everything and nothing came back conclusive.
As to how she got it that unfortunately remains a mystery to this day.
I knew the young woman’s mother, and it was tragic to hear her describe the scene at the hospital.
She hadn’t traveled recently, and this is in Southern California. There’s really no freshwater lakes to swim around here. They retraced her steps a few days weeks before this, and checked everything and nothing came back conclusive.
As to how she got it that unfortunately remains a mystery to this day.
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I think it is raw oysters that get most people, at least from the stories I hear. It is not sushi related.
Also, one tip is if you take antacid's then never eat raw oysters, that is also a risk factor.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC92958/
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If I remember correctly, some of the hot springs near Yellowstone also have amoeba in them. If those infect you through a membrane like in your eye or nose (e.g. through a Netty pot), the mortality is almost 100%.
Also, the hot springs have a wide variety of dissolved toxic elements like arsenic. Some spas even publish their water compositions, touting the benefits of the "minerals" in their water.
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I credit The Pitt with getting me to the point where I feel brave enough to look at that linked pic. Not sure if that’s a good thing…
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I wonder if there is a place in the east coast where you have Lyme disease, mosquitoes, and flesh eating bacteria.
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I’m sure if you switch to fishing in the Gulf of America instead, you’ll be totally safe
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2024 was an especially bad year. There were 24 deaths in Florida alone. Only five last year.
https://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/disease/vibrio-infections/
https://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/disease/vibrio-infections/
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Call me crazy but when I'm doing certain activities I actually keep a couple of these negative pressure wound vacuum things in arms reach (they're like a bandage with a pump attached that draws out some of the stuff on top). There are cheap ones out there, not just the ones drop shipped to "healthcare" orgs for the exorbitant bills. I figure hitting it with a quick peroxide spray and immediately pumping the wound are my best shot against some horrifying infection.
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For anybody tempted to look up the V. Vulnificus distribution on Wikipedia, do yourself a favor and do not follow any of the links there. The picture linked in this article has nothing on the images in those...
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Honestly the linked picture is pretty tame. I was almost disappointed.
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