The primary treatment of necrotizing fasciitis ... Connecticut and one in New York — died after being exposed to Vibrio vulnificus this summer, and a man in Texas died after contracting ...

The St. Louis County Department of Public Health announced that the man died from bacteria Vibrio vulnificus after eating ... The best treatment is drinking fluids until it passes.

Vibrio vulnificus, which proliferates in warm temperatures ... and begins to eat human flesh within 24-hours. Without treatment, the disease can cause necrosis — tissue death — and the ...

But it's still a scary story. The bacteria vibrio, vulnificus can kill someone within 48 hours. It lives in warm sea water. It can get into the body through, an open wound, even a tiny one like an ...

Consider this: Almost all oysters in the Gulf of Mexico are infected with a flesh-eating bacterium, Vibrio vulnificus (Hlady & Klontz, 1996). The good news? Fewer than 50 cases of V. vulnificus ...