Wade Fleming told The Associated Press that his mother Lynn Fleming, who retired to Florida's Gulf Coast, stumbled and fell into the water on Coquina Beach while her family was visiting from Pittsburgh. The wound swelled up and continued to bleed, leading her to urgent care where she was prescribed antibiotics and given a tetanus shot.
Lynn Fleming's death follows the case of a 12-year-old girl from Indiana, who scraped her toe and contracted the same rare bacteria while vacationing last month in a Florida Panhandle beach. The bacteria thrive in warm, salty water, and usually are found in the South. Kylei Brown almost lost her leg and needs physical therapy to be able to walk again."She always wanted to move to Florida, but my dad was semi-retired and he was a charter boat captain," he said.
take infections seriously.. FED kills quickly... nearly killed my dad. has a low survival rate even w quick treatment.
It's those DAMN flaka zombies down there... all them derelicts can do is shove a bunch of chemicals into their brains, strip down naked, and go look for faces to eat. Must be one hell of a living...