A 66-year-old Bradenton man required hospitalization and a leg amputation after he contracted a bacterial infection while wade fishing, a family member said. The man has been diagnosed with an ...

Vibrio vulnificusa is a naturally occurring ... blood vessels and organs. Calling it “flesh-eating bacteria” is inaccurate ...

Well, it's technically not flesh, eating, and thankfully, rare. But it's still a scary story. The bacteria vibrio, vulnificus can kill someone within 48 hours. It lives in warm sea water.

And there is a little bit of truth to that. Oysters can carry a scary flesh-eating bacteria called vibrio vulnificus. You can get it from oysters or from swimming in warm brackish water.

Consider this: Almost all oysters in the Gulf of Mexico are infected with a flesh-eating bacterium, Vibrio vulnificus ... the clinical isolates (i.e., the bacteria obtained from patients with ...