A fair warning to those of you with sensitive constitutions, this story contains one of the most skin crawly phrases known to man: “flesh-eating bacteria.” It seems that Galveston, Texas has a bit of a “people contracting the most horrible ailment imaginable” problem, as 10 people have picked up a flesh-eating bacteria in the coastal town in the last year and a half.
The latest is 50-year-old Brian Parrott, who had to have his leg amputated after contracting a mysterious flesh-eating bacteria at a Galveston beach. Parrott swam there on June 12 and lost his leg four days later.
“You go swimming with your family on Sunday, you go to work on Monday, you have a red leg on Tuesday, Wednesday you have boils on your leg, Thursday you lose the leg, ” Parrott’s mother Donna Dailey told Fox Houston this week.
Local authorities are speculating that it might be vibrio, a bacteria that pops up in the area relatively frequently. Parrott is currently in intensive care at LBJ Hospital in Houston.
For folks who want to see what a leg that needs amputating due to freaky Texas bacteria looks like, there’s a picture over at BroBible, but be very warned.
(Via Fox News)