A Florida man has been hospitalized at a Tampa hospital after contracting a life-threatening flesh-eating bacteria while fishing out in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mike Walton is being treated at Tampa General Hospital for flesh-eating disease, necrotizing fasciitis, a bacterial infection that’s extremely rare in the United States.
Walton said he was fishing on Saturday about 20 miles off the coast of Palm Harbor when he was stuck by a fish hook. Walton says it was a small prick, and it’s something that’s happened hundreds of times while fishing.
Saturday, Walton went to a nearby hospital where he received antibiotics for his hand that was swelling, and by Easter morning his hand had black bubbles growing on his hand.
See the rest here: https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/flesh-eating-bacteria-infects-florida-man-fishing-off-coast-of-palm-harbor-in-gulf-of-mexico
Corexit?
https://www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/
Every day, at least one “Florida man” gets newsworthy. That place must be a special kind of effed up to get a topic heading on Reddit.
Nice being as far from there as I am, if it is as bad as it seems.
“Doctors at one point, had to consider possibly amputating his arm, but they were able to get inside his arm and remove the bacteria from his tissues.”
The photo of his hand is horrendous looking.
Like Misty said, one of the first things I thought of was not only Corexit, but the combination of that, along with all the radiation from Fukushima these last few years (and whatever other toxins they’ve been dumping there)… anything is possible.
Somewhere between Crystal River and Port Richie is a nuclear power plant almost right on the Gulf. I do hope this crap is not affecting the sponges off Tarpon Springs, one of the world’s most well known sponge-diving areas. And what about those swimming off places like St. Pete Beach? (Note: I used to live near there).
Also: the Appalachicola area is notorious for the so-called “red tide” bacteria.(that is, the panhandle area).