More ocean scares from Galveston, Texas: www.click2houston.com.
After thirty minutes of fishing in the warm waters of Texas, bacteria found a chance to enter his blood stream through a cut in his leg. Within days, he developed a sever infection and may lose the entire leg.
If you have an open wound and insist on entering warm ocean waters, be aware of the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus. If you do have a cut of any sort, wash your wound with rubbing alcohol as soon as you leave the water. This bacteria can also spread to humans through contaminated seafood (mostly shellfish) but most of us know about the dangers of bad shellfish.
Flesh-eating bacteria in the ocean? That's a new one for me and it's going on my list. With all of its dangers, why are we so drawn to the clear blue ocean waters?
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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