Posted on 07/29/2014 11:36:50 AM PDT by Kartographer
Home> Health Warm Water Sparks Flesh-Eating Disease Warning in Florida Jul 29, 2014, 12:12 PM ET By KATIE MOISSE Katie Moisse More from Katie » Katie Moisse Health Editor via Good Morning America PHOTO: Crescent Beach in Sarasota, Fla. is pictured in this file photo. Florida Officials Warn About Deadly Bacteria in Water Next Video Flesh-Eating Bacteria Survivor Gets Service Dog Auto Start: On | Off
Florida health officials are warning beachgoers about a seawater bacterium that can invade cuts and scrapes to cause flesh-eating disease.
Vibrio vulnificus –- a cousin of the bacterium that causes Cholera –- thrives in warm saltwater, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If ingested, it can cause stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea. But it can also infect open wounds and lead to “skin breakdown and ulceration,” according to the CDC.
“Since it is naturally found in warm marine waters, people with open wounds can be exposed to Vibrio vulnificus through direct contact with seawater,” the Florida Department of Health said in a statement.
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Is this something new? Betcha it’s caused by those evil Democrats and Global Warming. Deadly duo.
“WTF? Am I supposed to wear a Hazmat suit when cooking lobster?”
Hazmat suits are another Gubment fraud!
Send those lobsters to me for safe disposal!
Just nutrients, and life knows what to do with nutrients.
In an 1895 journal there is a report of a die off in Florida Bay where the water turned brown, grass died, etc.
Back then, the number of white families living in the Miami area was minimal, sugar was an expensive luxury, - - - -
Personally, I have no worries about the environment.
Survival of American culture, on the other hand, IS a worry.
I loves to go swimmin,
Wit bowlegged wimmin,
But not flesh-eating bacteria,
I’m Popeye the sailor man.
toot toot
Well now, swimming in Lake Superior doesn’t sound so bad, does it?
Maybe it’s time to bus all the open sored Aids patients to a south Florida beachparty, to end their suffering!
Ya know what GladesGuru,
Ya ought to fly over big sugar when they burn the fields.
It obviously pollutes the air, water etc and we subsidize them doing such. to the tune of a dime a pound.
Sounds like a great idea,
You don't have to worry about it because the Florida taxpayer pays to clean it up.
I read the story yesterday about the GOP elite in Florida taking the free trips to the King Ranch in Texas being paid for by the Sugar industry. I had no idea that the King Ranch was in the Florida sugar business.
You just had to post this story while I am visiting the Florida panhandle beaches with my family, didn’t you?
Better than you posting a first hand account isn’t it?
Got a fungi infection with rash and terrible itching. Dermatologist, a retired Med. Colonel from McDill AFB., prescribed 20 minutes emerged in water at Clearwater Beach, better than any itching ointment!!!
Hey! Throw caution to the wind! We ain't gonna get out of this life alive!
Hey! Throw caution to the wind! We ain’t gonna get out of this life alive! Carpe Diem!
LOL
We had a record low last night
July has pretty much been September....... great!
Yeah, except for that Florida beaches have flesh eating bacteria. I’m not sure what beaches have flesh eating bacteria but be careful.
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