Severe 'flesh-eating' infections tied to heat waves in eastern US, CDC reports

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3. Buddy of mine got it wade fishing near Rockport, Tx.

He had a nick on his shin from weed-whacking. Water breached his hip waders, got in the wound, started stinging and getting intense quickly. He pulled the waders off and the area around the wound was already looking bad, and he suspected the worst. His buddies got him to a clinic that has a unit devoted to vibrio. He was in that unit for a long time, nearly lost his leg, was headed toward organ failure at one point. He made it, but it was a long recovery. He showed me the pics and you could see bone.