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Man Contracts Flesh-Eating Bacteria At Texas Beach
CBS11-TV (Texas) ^
| 7/18/07
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Posted on 07/18/2007 6:51:25 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: DumpsterDiver
“Here’s a nice picture for those who are not too squeamish.
www.jyi.org/volumes/volume5/issue8/images/hu_1.jpg”
Point taken. If it’s all the same to all of you, I plan to continue swimming in chlorinated pools. They’re not perfect either but the odds are I’ll be safer.
I also don’t recall hearing about any uninvited sharks frolicking about in a swimming pool. Yet.
To: kiriath_jearim
In the Summer of 85 I was at Keesler AFB for Tech School. I went to the Beach on the Gulf of Mexico in Biloxi. I took one look at the water and said, “Oh Hell No!”
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posted on
07/18/2007 7:53:34 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: kiriath_jearim
Yikes! Good thing we went to Corpus.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:05:02 PM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: weegee
Did this guy have a cut on him?
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:08:19 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: sushiman
Lookie here, raw meat on the scene and the sushiman shows up in a New York minute!
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:09:47 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: weegee
You don’t need to answer me. I read an earlier posting and it didn’t give the details. Yes, he did have an opening on his leg. This report makes a lot more sense.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:15:15 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: Grizzled Bear
I used to do the environmental health surveillance of the water by the USAF on the Beaches around Keesler AFB. They never were anything but off limits to USAF personnel because of the fecal and sewage contamination that was prevalent there (1974-1977). The Tchutabufa River and the Back Bay of Biloxi was contaminated even worse than the Gulf exposed water. I know of several cases of disease contracted by Airmen that were just splashed by the water boating on the back bay. Giardia, Shigella, and Salmonella were common.
To: vetvetdoug
There were several people swimming in the stuff. It even smelled nasty!
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:30:05 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: yarddog
That was Surfside. The ugliest place in the world.
I grew up around Padre Island, TX (big dunes, white sand and clear water), and spent as much time as possible there. We move to the Lake Jackson area when I was 12, After months of begging, our mother finally took us to the “beach”. When we topped the causeway bridge and saw that nasty town and dirty beach, we begged her to take us back home. I lived in that area for three more years and never once had the desire to go to the beach.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:30:07 PM PDT
by
TheMom
(Dix, TexasCowboy and Flyer all now live in the next best place to Texas . . . Heaven!)
To: AnnaZ
Isn’t that a great city? Did you take the tour on the Lex?
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:32:17 PM PDT
by
TheMom
(Dix, TexasCowboy and Flyer all now live in the next best place to Texas . . . Heaven!)
To: TheMom
Did you take the tour on the Lex?Yes. We went there on the 4th, specifically for the tour, as it was my 7-year-old's birthday and he's a huge WWII buff. He loved it!
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:39:12 PM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: kiriath_jearim; sam_paine
Oops. My #23 was actually meant for "sam".
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:41:23 PM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: yarddog
"I grew up in Walton County, Fl (where the beaches have snow white sand and the water is clear blue/green), in the Panhandle. After seeing the brown water, there was no way I was going swimming at that Texas beach." Yup. Same here. We spent summers at Gulf Shores, Alabama. I was never more disappointed when I moved to Houston and finally went to Galveston.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:49:54 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: vetvetdoug
"I know of several cases of disease contracted by Airmen that were just splashed by the water boating on the back bay. Giardia, Shigella, and Salmonella were common."
Shigella's a blast. There is nothing quite like the feeling of having the lining of your colon slough off.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:09:51 PM PDT
by
ndt
To: blam
We actuallly were not planning on swimming in the Gulf at Galveston, just parked on the beach and watched the freighters and tankers passing by.
The people in East Texas were great but the land was awful. Once we were going parking and I started to pull off the highway onto a dirt road. It was wet and she immediately sain, no! Too late, my wheels sunk down in black mud so sticky and glue like that it took weeks to get it off my shoes. As luck would have it, we had only been parked a few seconds when a pickup truck with three teenage boys came by. They slammed on brakes and hooked a chain to the car and pulled us out. Always liked Texans and even better after that.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:37:09 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: yarddog
"Always liked Texans and even better after that." They don't come any better.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:46:43 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
I'll try again ...
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posted on
07/19/2007 12:22:35 AM PDT
by
sushiman
To: Revolting cat!
” Lookie here, raw meat on the scene and the sushiman shows up in a New York minute! “
Hehe...What’d you expect from a New Yorker ?
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posted on
07/19/2007 12:25:50 AM PDT
by
sushiman
To: kiriath_jearim
My brother-in-law Cajun Humorist Ralph Begnaud died from this several years ago after eating raw oysters.
Great guy, but his liver had been abused by years of 'partying'.
To: AnnaZ
Well they couldn’t very well let the “Body of Christ” be infected with skin eating bacteria, could they? =)
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posted on
07/19/2007 2:06:45 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
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