Fisherman dies from flesh-eating bacteria after wading in water
An angler has died after contracting an infection from a flesh-eating bacteria commonly found in oyster-inhabited waters.
According to health officials, the elderly man, from Texas in the US, was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with open wounds where he began complaining of discomfort.
He was taken to hospital with “severe leg pain and classic signs” of vibrio bacterial infection, The Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District said.
Despite attempting to fight the infection via amputation, the patient died just a day after contracting the infection.
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Health officials described common symptoms as diarrhoea, abdominal cramping, vomiting and blistering skin lesions.
The death was the second in the space of a week involving the bacteria after a Florida man died from eating oysters with the bacteria.
Professor at Texas A&M University College of Medicine Dr William Burgin Jr advised people at risk of contracting the infection to avoid eating raw shellfish and to stay out of salt water if you have a wound.
