This type of flesh-eating bacteria, known as vibrio vulnificus, can affect the intestinal tract.
LAKE CHARLES, La. -- A Louisiana man is recovering in the hospital after getting infected with a flesh-eating bacteria.
"This infection is something that will go from a fun day at the beach to an extremely painful wound within hours," said Dr. Stephen Castleberry with West Cal Cam Hospital."Overnight can be sepsis and septic shock, and aggressive therapy to try to do what you can to save life and tissue." "Not long in the water either. Just a couple hours we were there at the most," said Jessie's wife, Belinda Abshire.
"Getting better slowly each day. We got a long road ahead of us," said Belinda's daughter, Amanda Savoie.
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