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2nd Texas man infected with flesh-eating bacteria
USA TODAY NETWORK KVUE-TV, Austin 12:37 p.m. EDT June 25, 2016
KYLE, Texas ? For the second time in two weeks, a Texas man has been hospitalized with a flesh-eating bacterial infection after spending a day at the beach with his family.
Adrian Ruiz, 42, of Buda, Texas, and his family went on a Father's Day getaway to Port Aransas, Texas, near Corpus Christi. But Sunday he developed a headache and fever and noticed a red rash on his leg, according to Ruiz's family.
The cause of the infection was diagnosed later in the week as Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, commonly known as flesh eating because its toxins kill skin cells they come in contact with through existing cuts and scrapes. Ruiz was admitted Monday to Seton Medical Center Hays in Kyle.
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On June 17, doctors at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston had to amputate the right leg of Brian Parrott, 50, of Jacinto City, Texas, after he contracted a severe Vibrio infection on a June 12 beach trip to Galveston.
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Woman contracts flesh-eating bacteria while surf fishing off of Louisiana
BY
KERI BLAKINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Tuesday, May 31, 2016, 4:19 PM
A woman in Louisiana is sounding the alarm about underwater dangers after she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while surf fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.
The problems started on May 12, when Kelly Kohen Blomberg was in the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle, a barrier island known for fishing.
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Instead of healing, the small scratches had turned into an oozing, gaping wound ? and Blomberg had to head back to the hospital to get a skin graft and have dead tissue surgically removed. She's now had two surgeries and there's still a gaping hole in her foot, though doctors are hoping the skin graft will take so the wound can start healing over.
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2nd Texas man infected with flesh-eating bacteria
USA TODAY NETWORK KVUE-TV, Austin 12:37 p.m. EDT June 25, 2016
KYLE, Texas ? For the second time in two weeks, a Texas man has been hospitalized with a flesh-eating bacterial infection after spending a day at the beach with his family.
Adrian Ruiz, 42, of Buda, Texas, and his family went on a Father's Day getaway to Port Aransas, Texas, near Corpus Christi. But Sunday he developed a headache and fever and noticed a red rash on his leg, according to Ruiz's family.
The cause of the infection was diagnosed later in the week as Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, commonly known as flesh eating because its toxins kill skin cells they come in contact with through existing cuts and scrapes. Ruiz was admitted Monday to Seton Medical Center Hays in Kyle.
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On June 17, doctors at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston had to amputate the right leg of Brian Parrott, 50, of Jacinto City, Texas, after he contracted a severe Vibrio infection on a June 12 beach trip to Galveston.
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Woman contracts flesh-eating bacteria while surf fishing off of Louisiana
BY
KERI BLAKINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Tuesday, May 31, 2016, 4:19 PM
A woman in Louisiana is sounding the alarm about underwater dangers after she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while surf fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.
The problems started on May 12, when Kelly Kohen Blomberg was in the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle, a barrier island known for fishing.
...
Instead of healing, the small scratches had turned into an oozing, gaping wound ? and Blomberg had to head back to the hospital to get a skin graft and have dead tissue surgically removed. She's now had two surgeries and there's still a gaping hole in her foot, though doctors are hoping the skin graft will take so the wound can start healing over.
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