Flesh-Eating Bacteria on Beach
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (178701)
United States
July 2, 2019 12:25pm CST
I have written a couple of articles about the risks involved in swimming in warm or stagnant fresh water and the parasites that lurk in swimming pools or water parks.
Today's threat comes from the Florida beaches. A woman fell and got a small cut on her shin on a Florida beach. It got infected; and she got a flesh-eating bacteria in the wound. Unfortunately she died last week. She was in Manatee County.
You have to be so careful when you enjoy our pools, water parks, ponds and beaches.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
2 Jul 19
I wanted go go swimming today but remembered about the bacteria and decided just to take a long shower. Do you know if there any dangerous bacteria in the sauna?
I'm going to search for the news report about that woman.
MIAMI (AP) — A 77-year-old woman was infected by flesh-eating bacteria and died nearly two weeks after she fell and scraped her leg while walking on a Florida beach, her family said...
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@cacay1 (83495)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
3 Jul 19
@1hopefulman , it's so scary better you did not go out for a swim. She was so unfortunate that day, it might be her destiny to die too soon and she was made instrument so others won;t follow. It's better to swim only in a private pool where there is a continuous flow of water.
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@cacay1 (83495)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
3 Jul 19
@1hopefulman , I have read the attached news and found it Florida beach as a scary beach. There were four people affected with the flesh eating bacteria. One young girl had her leg cut, one desired to move to Florida only to find her sudden departure forever. it is so sad. How did the government react to this news and the action to be done to the flesh eating bacteria in one of the beaches in Florida? there should be a warning sign there: WARNING...
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
2 Jul 19
I'm sure there are dangerous bacteria just about anywhere unless it's kept spotlessly clean.
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@amandajay (23264)
• New Zealand
3 Jul 19
this is really scary. I was thinking whether it can be spread when we eat sea food
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
3 Jul 19
I wrote another post with a parasite that can be gotten in undercooked seafood...so make sure it's cooked well.
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@amandajay (23264)
• New Zealand
4 Jul 19
@LindaOHio oh i see... like people who eats sushi.. raw seafood
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@1creekgirl (41430)
• United States
2 Jul 19
It's really frightening. That poor lady and her family.
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@cacay1 (83495)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
3 Jul 19
@DianneN, the said beach is located in your country. I read the attached news and there were four victims of that flesh eating bacteria. There should be a WARNING SIGN on that beach. The government should spray the sea to kill that flesh eating bacteria. that is a very bad and scary issue the world must know.
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@moffittjc (121590)
• Gainesville, Florida
5 Jul 19
It's amazing that anyone can survive living in Florida, with all the flesh-eating bacteria, red tide, vicious alligators, man-eating pythons, legendary mosquitoes, and stifling heat that makes my oven feel like an ice box.
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@moffittjc (121590)
• Gainesville, Florida
6 Jul 19
@LindaOHio There are still pristine places left in Florida, and some affordable places left in Florida, if you know where to look!
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
5 Jul 19
Exactly. We want to move down there; but there is so much crap down there...We wanted to move to the Keys; but the cost of a house has gone up dramatically. The average house in the area we want to live in is $500,000; and that's for a 2 or 3 bedroom home that looks like a $100,000 home.
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@cacay1 (83495)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
3 Jul 19
RIP to her , she was so unfortunate to have encountered such deadly fate instead of enjoying her swim she was caught up by that worst bacteria. It is not good to swim in a pool, beach, sea for waters this time are toxic or contaminated.
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
3 Jul 19
It isn't only FLorida --- This just popped up on CNN.
A mother said her son was covered in wounds from flesh-eating bacteria the day following a swim off the coast of Maryland, according to CNN Affiliate WJZ-TV in Baltimore. Peninsula Regional Health System physicians diagnosed the boy with Vibrio, Brittany C
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
4 Jul 19
@cperry2 I just did a post on that a couple of days ago. There is also a brain-eating parasite in warm and stagnant waters.
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
4 Jul 19
I know. It's really terrible. It takes the fun out of going into the water. Better not to go at all.
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
4 Jul 19
@LindaOHio unfortunately I agree, there is even a report going around now about some fecal parasite that can live in chlorinated swimming polls for days. It's getting where no water is safe to swim in.
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@Sedakabloom (94)
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2 Jul 19
Crazy things happens in Florida. That is just so crazy.. I've never heard of flesh eating bacteria..
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