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STEWART: FLORIDA HAS SEEN AN INCREASE IN CASES OF FLESH-EATING BACTERIA THIS YEAR. THE BACTERIA THRIVES IN FLOOD WATER. MICHELLE: BECAUSE OF THAT AS AMANDA DUKES REPORTS OFFICIALS SAY IT’S DRIVEN LARGELY BY A SURGE IN THE COUNTY HIT HARDEST BY HURRICANE IAN. AMANDA: PARTS OF FLORIDA HIT HARDEST BY HURRICANE IAN ARE SEEING NEARLY DOUBLE THE NORMAL NUMBER OF INFECTIONS FROM A FLESH-EATING BACTERIA THAT THRIVES IN COASTAL FLOODWATERS. ACCORDING TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SO FAR IN 2022 FLORIDA HAS SEEN 65 CASES AND 11 DEATHS FROM THE BACTERIUM, THAT COMPARES WITH 34 CASES AND 10 DEATHS IN 2021 THE ONLY CENTRAL FLORIDA COUNTIES WITH REPORTED CASES THIS YEAR ARE BREVARD WITH TWO CASES AND NO DEATHS, AND SEMINOLE WITH ONE CASE AND ONE DEATH. COMPARE THAT TO LEE COUNTY, WHERE HURRICANE IAN MADE LANDFALL, IT HAS 29 CASES AND 4 DEATHS. UCF PROFESSOR DR. SALVADOR ALMAGRO MARENO IS AN EXPERT IN FLESH EATING BACTERIA. HE SAYS CONSIDERING THE EXPANSIVE FLOODING FROM IAN, HE’S NOT SURPRISED AT THE SPIKE. >> PEOPLE THAT MIGHT NOT BE IN CONTACT WITH BACTERIA AT NORMAL TIMES, BECAUSE OF THE WATER, AND THE COASTAL WATER GETTING INSIDE THE LAND, IT JUST INCREASES THE CONTACT AND ALSO PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE LIKE WOUNDS BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE CARRYING THINGS. IT’S GOING TO CREATE THE PERFECT ENVIRONMENT FOR TRANSMISSION OF THE DISEASE. AMANDA: SCIENTISTS SAY FLESH EATING BACTERIA PRIMARILY THRIVE IN SALTWATER AND THE FLOODING WE SAW HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA WAS MOSTLY FRESH WATER. THEY SAY THAT’S WHY WE DIDN’T SEE MORE CASES HERE. DOCTORS SAY FOR THOSE WITH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS AN INFECTION WITH FLESH EATING BACTERIA CAN BE LIFE THREATENING. DR. MORENO’ ADVICE IS SIMPLY TO AVOID BRACKISH FLOODWATERS WHENEVER POSSIBLE. AMANDA DUKES REPORTING, WESH
Flesh-eating bacteria reports summation successful Florida aft Hurricane Ian
Parts of Florida deed hardest by Hurricane Ian are seeing astir treble the mean fig of infections from flesh-eating bacteria that thrive successful coastal floodwaters.According to the Florida Department of Health, truthful acold successful 2022, Florida has seen 65 cases and 1 decease from the bacterium compared with 34 cases and 10 deaths successful 2021.The lone Central Florida counties with reported cases this twelvemonth are Brevard with 2 cases and nary deaths, and Seminole with 1 lawsuit and 1 death. Compare that to Lee County, wherever Hurricane Ian made landfall, it has 29 cases and 4 deaths.University of Central Florida prof Salvador Almagro Mareno, Ph.D., is an adept successful flesh-eating bacteria. He said considering the expansive flooding from Ian, he's not amazed astatine the spike."People that mightiness not beryllium successful interaction with bacteria astatine mean times, due to the fact that of the water, and the coastal h2o getting wrong the land. It conscionable increases the interaction and besides radical are gonna person similar wounds due to the fact that they are gonna beryllium carrying things. It's going to make the cleanable situation for transmission of the disease,” Mareno said.Scientists accidental flesh-eating bacteria thrive successful brackish h2o and the flooding seen successful Central Florida was chiefly caller water. They accidental that's wherefore we didn't spot much cases here.Doctors accidental for those with weakened immune systems, corruption with flesh-eating bacteria tin beryllium life-threateningMoreno's proposal is simply to debar brackish floodwaters whenever imaginable and to cautiously lavation with soap and h2o aft vulnerability to them.Symptoms of Vibrio infection, oregon vibriosis, see watery diarrhea, abdominal cramping, nausea, vomiting, fever and chills. Treatment is not ever needed, and terrible unwellness is rare, but doctors prescribe antibiotics successful much persistent cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Parts of Florida deed hardest by Hurricane Ian are seeing astir treble the mean fig of infections from flesh-eating bacteria that thrive successful coastal floodwaters.
According to the Florida Department of Health, truthful acold successful 2022, Florida has seen 65 cases and 1 decease from the bacterium compared with 34 cases and 10 deaths successful 2021.
The lone Central Florida counties with reported cases this twelvemonth are Brevard with 2 cases and nary deaths, and Seminole with 1 lawsuit and 1 death. Compare that to Lee County, wherever Hurricane Ian made landfall, it has 29 cases and 4 deaths.
University of Central Florida prof Salvador Almagro Mareno, Ph.D., is an adept successful flesh-eating bacteria. He said considering the expansive flooding from Ian, he's not amazed astatine the spike.
"People that mightiness not beryllium successful interaction with bacteria astatine mean times, due to the fact that of the water, and the coastal h2o getting wrong the land. It conscionable increases the interaction and besides radical are gonna person similar wounds due to the fact that they are gonna beryllium carrying things. It's going to make the cleanable situation for transmission of the disease,” Mareno said.
Scientists accidental flesh-eating bacteria thrive successful brackish h2o and the flooding seen successful Central Florida was chiefly caller water. They accidental that's wherefore we didn't spot much cases here.
Doctors accidental for those with weakened immune systems, corruption with flesh-eating bacteria tin beryllium life-threatening
Moreno's proposal is simply to debar brackish floodwaters whenever imaginable and to cautiously lavation with soap and h2o aft vulnerability to them.
Symptoms of Vibrio infection, oregon vibriosis, see watery diarrhea, abdominal cramping, nausea, vomiting, fever and chills. Treatment is not ever needed, and terrible unwellness is rare, but doctors prescribe antibiotics successful much persistent cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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