Posted on 07/05/2019 3:58:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A young boy was rushed to the hospital after he contracted a flesh-eating bacteria at a Maryland beach.
Brittany Carey shared two graphic images of her son's leg where the bacteria began eating away at his flesh in three spots.
Carey said in a Facebook post on Saturday that her parents had taken her son out for a beach day off the coast of Ocean City on June 23.
She wrote that her son had a great time swimming until June 24 when she 'started noticing little spots developing all over his body'.
'Tuesday morning there were open wounds developing but I had thought he was scratching them, making them worse. Only to find when I picked him up Tuesday they were a lot bigger and a lot more,' she added.
Carey said she took her son to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Maryland, where doctors told her that he had a common ocean bacteria called Vibrio.
The bacteria can also be found in raw, contaminated seafood.
Carey said she shared the Facebook post as a warning for other parents.
'Please be careful out there guys and if you start seeing wounds such as these please get somewhere fast!'
As of Monday, Carey said her son's pediatrician 'is really happy with the healing'.
Within the past few months, there have been dozens of people to contract the flesh-eating bacteria as climate change fuels the spread of the feared bugs in once-safe oceans, a new study suggested in June.
Five people in Delaware and New Jersey contracted flesh-eating infections in the last two years from seafood or water from the Delaware Bay, which used to be too cold for the microorganisms.
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There are warnings over the Gulf of Mexico beaches. They aren’t any warmer than usual.
“...as climate change fuels the spread of the feared bugs in once-safe oceans, a new study suggested in June.”
I’m more concerned about the “brain tissue eating bugs” spreading among the ranks of journalists, academics, politicians and ‘entertainers’!
I suppose their next conclusion will tie these disasters to the Trump presidency.
“Climate Change”, huh? So, do we need to swim at beaches with colder water, or warmer water?
How’s the surfing in Greenland, anyone?
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This stuff has been around forever. And yes summer warmed water is worse than winter water.
Yes, because all of us that play in warmer oceans in the south are constantly getting flesh eating bacteria.
... morons.
Thanks for the heads up, will stay clear of Maryland beaches.
Actually, most of this is caused by the “homeless” defecating all over the place. That then gets into the water (fresh and ocean).
Wow...they are actually blaming “climate change” for this.
No joke.
The Daily Mail is a British newspaper?
Are no US newspapers publishing this, or are they quicker on the draw across the pond?
I know the American press tends to bury things that don’t fit the globalist narrative.
And one should not go swimming where the bacteria is known to be present if they have any open cuts or scrapes.
“...where doctors told her that he had a common ocean bacteria called Vibrio....”
Democrats...the vibrio of the American body politic.
What kind of parent lets their kid go into the ocean in Maryland? Hopefully they prosecute the parents.
(I just say that on liberal sites to illustrate all the nannies that are out there)
Full title (since it IS the Daily Mail with its hideous, run-on-sentence headlines):
‘If you start seeing wounds such as these please get somewhere fast!’ Mom issues warning after her son contracts a flesh-eating bacteria swimming off a Maryland beach
The same bacteria that fuels the “Don’t eat oysters in a month that doesn’t have a “R” in it” hysteria.
What happened to “the land of pleasant living”?
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