Woman contracts flesh-eating bacteria while fishing off Alabama coast

Woman contracts flesh-eating bacteria while fishing off Alabama coast

A 70-year-old woman nearly lost her hand after contracting flesh-eating bacteria while fishing with her husband on Alabamas Gulf Coast last week. The unidentified woman reportedly reached into a bucket of live shrimp bait and pricked the back of her hand, though it was not clear if the infection was a result of the shrimp or the water they were fishing in that then entered the wound, Gulf Coast News Today reported.

The womans husband, whose name was also withheld, told the news outlet that her hand began to swell and she experienced fever, chills and headaches within three hours of getting cut. They drove back to Mississippi where she was admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery, and has since spent more than 10 days recovering.

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They removed a lot of tissue from her hand and forearm, the womans husband told Gulf Coast News Today. The culture came back as vibrio.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/07/07/woman-contracts-flesh-eating-bacteria-while-fishing-off-alabama-coast.html

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