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Last week, a South Carolina man found that out the hard way after stepping on a seashell and getting a bad infection in his foot, according to ABC News4. After a visit to the emergency room, docs ...
A flesh-eating bacterium has come for East Coast beaches—and it can kill you in two days. The CDC has officially issued an emergency health alert.
The chiggers carrying a bacteria that can cause scrub typhus were found in several North Carolina state parks and recreation areas. Chiggers infected with potentially deadly bacteria found in NC ...
A man has been left unable to walk after contracting a deadly flesh-eating bacterial infection after strolling barefoot across a beach. Brent Norman, from Charleston , South Carolina , is an avid ...
Enterococcus bacteria is not harmful by itself, but it indicates harmful bacteria is in the water. These types of bacteria can cause gastrointestinal illnesses, resulting in vomiting and diarrhea. [1] [3] They may also cause upper respiratory illness as well as skin infections at an open wound. [3]
Vibrio vulnificus is expanding its range north at nearly 30 miles annually. So far 3 NC residents have died from Vibrio infections this year. A warming ocean is helping a flesh-eating bacteria ...
According to the CDC, V. vulnificus infections in the Eastern United States increased eightfold from 1988–2018 and the border of where these infections occur has migrated 48 km Northward each year. In July–August 2023, Connecticut, New York, and North Carolina, reported severe and fatal V. vulnificus infections. [37]
Year City Venue Source Cases Deaths Fatality rate Notes 1965: Washington, D.C., United States St. Elizabeths Hospital: Unknown: 94: 16: 17%: The outbreak occurred in 1965, but was not identified as legionnaires' disease until saved blood serum was exposed to bacterial samples from the 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak.