This is just uncut . A world who was setting crab traps in the saltwater Halifax River last week is the late victim in a string of Florida death because of theflesh - eatingVibrio Vulnificus bacterium .
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-a-leg-consumed-by-flesh-eating-bacteria-lo-5775463
Vibrio Vulnificus is not Modern to Florida or the Gulf Coast region , and is garner attention precisely because of a growing actualization that the menace has been logical over the last few days . So far in 2013 the Florida Department of Health ( DOH ) has account 27 case of human contagion , which includes nine fatalities . Those are the same numbers reached during all of 2012 . And there were 35 cases including 10 death in 2011 .
The severity of a instance depends on an individual ’s ecumenical wellness and resistant system condition , consort to Carina Blackmore , the interim state epidemiologist at Florida ’s DOH . People with inherent term are less able to defend against the bacterium , especially if they have continuing liver disease . The DOH is keep measures to dilute infection , and hopefully there wo n’t be other cases in Florida this class . But with almost three months to go we ’re not out of the Grant Wood yet . Plus everything starts over on January 1 . [ The Daily Beast ]
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