Doctors Warn of Chesapeake Bay Flesh-Eating Bacteria

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Doctors are warning about Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in the warm waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries during peak season.

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Doctors warn of Chesapeake Bay flesh-eating bacteria

Doctors warn Vibrio can cause infection in broken skin, spread fast, kill tissue, cause sepsis, result in amputation or even death.

Doctors warn of very serious Vibrio infection spreading in Chesapeake Bay

Flesh-eating bacteria cases are on the rise this summer in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. According to authorities, 72 people have been treated for a fast-spreading soft tissue infection. Doctors warn Vibrio can cause infection in broken skin, spread fast, kill tissue, cause sepsis, result in amputation or even death. “See my suit. It’s all patched up over the years, and each scrape would open the suit up,” said diver Skip Zinck. Zinck …

A flesh-eating bacterium is on the rise as Chesapeake Bay warms

BALTIMORE — A warming Chesapeake Bay may mean more days of swimming, but it brings a greater threat from a flesh-eating bacterium that thrives as the mercury rises. Last year, the health department reported 11 deaths from Vibrio fulnificus —…

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Vibrio bacteria cultured by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show up as blue spots in petri dish. Dave Harp Infections are still relatively uncommon, but the costs of infection are severe One day last July, Vernon Spear scratched his forearm on a crab pot as he pulled it out of the Choptank River from his pier in Cambridge, MD. He put hydrogen peroxide on the tiny cuts, thinking that would disinfect them. That ni…