Weird! Man is killed in 48 hours from bacteria in Florida water.. He just got wet! CNN

reply to post by ExPostFacto


The acids in the stomach kills the brain eating bacteria, but the bacteria has been found in drinking water the same water that you bath yourself with, here in the south.

Now that is problematic as when you take a shower you have the chance of the bacteria entering the body from other areas like the eyes and nose.

Also people that like to rinse their sinuses are warned here in the south no to used tap water.

darkbake
reply to post by NotAnAspie

 

Florida is also where the zombie outbreak started a year or two ago, with the bath salts.

edit on 2-10-2013 by darkbake because: (no reason given)

I have read the those salts were found not to be the cause. Scary that THAT hasn't been on the MSM.

Who knows what all went into the gulf besides corexit? perfect cover to dump stuff. experiment on people or get rid of something.

What if some chemical mutated things?

727Sky
www.cnn.com...

Not much to add except the antibiotics had no effect on the bacteria..

Not much to add? You couldn't give a summary of what happened and where, you know specifics? You do know posting a link and a line is frowned upon here right?

No offense but this isn't FB.

Not everyone can watch videos and I'm sure you could have found actual links with news information.

Anyone with a brain doesn't swim in the Halifax River. It's disgusting!

MELBOURNE, Fla. — A flesh-eating bacteria in the same family as those that cause cholera has killed nine people in Florida this year, most recently a 59-year-old who was wading in the Halifax River to set crab traps.

Henry Konietzky, 59, of Palm Coast, Fla., died Sept. 23 after setting the traps two days earlier in the river near Ormond Beach, Fla. The very next day, he noticed he had a sore on his leg that looked like a bug bite.

Man wades into Fla. river, dies

All I did was put in google "florida halifax river died man"


No offense but posts like this are what's ruining ATS. Give some input at least.

My mom and husband go crabbing in this river all the time. The flesh eating bacteria that killed him can infect anyone esp if you have open wounds. If you have an illness your chances of survival are less than those who are healthy. I'm going to assume this man was not healthy and or had some kind of wound or skin condition.

Sad but I would never go into the river without proper fishing attire like rubber pants!

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To bad the medical establishment will not use Colloidal Silver or MMS with DMSO

both are effective treatments if rendered quickly and liberally .

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I tend to lean towards the incidents of infections like this being the result of a decreased capacity immune system from background pollution causing constant stress, and just stress itself.

The fact that antibiotics and other drugs being released into the environment after sewage treatment may be causing these bacteria to form resistant strains also may be a factor.

We really made a mess of things here, things don't just go away because you flush them down the toilet or bury them in a landfill.

The more you beat something up, the more it either adapts and becomes stronger or dies. That tends to leave only the most virulent pathogens.

Gee, I'm about to move back to Florida and disappear back into the sea of idiots that it is.

reply to post by dimithae


That`s a good point, who knows what kind of weird things might have been living in that oil or the gas pockets that were released in the gulf.
There is a theory that the meteor that caused the dinosaur extinction landed somewhere near the Yucatan peninsula, maybe these are some strange alien bacteria that were brought here on that meteor and have been living deep under the gulf in oil and gas pockets?

mblahnikluver

727Sky
www.cnn.com...

Not much to add except the antibiotics had no effect on the bacteria..

Not much to add? You couldn't give a summary of what happened and where, you know specifics? You do know posting a link and a line is frowned upon here right?

No offense but this isn't FB.

Not everyone can watch videos and I'm sure you could have found actual links with news information.

Anyone with a brain doesn't swim in the Halifax River. It's disgusting!

MELBOURNE, Fla. — A flesh-eating bacteria in the same family as those that cause cholera has killed nine people in Florida this year, most recently a 59-year-old who was wading in the Halifax River to set crab traps.

Henry Konietzky, 59, of Palm Coast, Fla., died Sept. 23 after setting the traps two days earlier in the river near Ormond Beach, Fla. The very next day, he noticed he had a sore on his leg that looked like a bug bite.

Man wades into Fla. river, dies

All I did was put in google "florida halifax river died man"


No offense but posts like this are what's ruining ATS. Give some input at least.

My mom and husband go crabbing in this river all the time. The flesh eating bacteria that killed him can infect anyone esp if you have open wounds. If you have an illness your chances of survival are less than those who are healthy. I'm going to assume this man was not healthy and or had some kind of wound or skin condition.

Sad but I would never go into the river without proper fishing attire like rubber pants!

Wow, sorry you got so upset; figured most would read the title and understand the thread without me discussing every detail. To me it does not matter where it happened in the USA, it happened. But I must be wrong in my thinking (not used to hand holding people who are interested in something) and I will work on it.. Or if you see me post something do not waste your time reading or researching the post...a win, win, for both of us.

Another incident since:

An elderly Florida man is in a Jacksonville hospital fighting a dangerous coastal-bacteria infection as the 27th suspected vibrio vulnificus victim this year in the Sunshine State.

George Clarke, 79, was infected with vibrio vulnificus after a crab bit him Saturday night, said his grandson, Bob Karstetter. Clarke was bit in Nassau County, which is north of Jacksonville at the Florida-Georgia state line.

www.orlandosentinel.com... Wonder if the crab carried the bacteria or the bite just allowed the water to get inside him.
Geez there should be a state wide warning with signs posted.
ETA: Another case - 2 more men affected but have recovered.
www.floridatoday.com...
The article says the bacteria usually does not cause disease. Maybe this thing has evolved or just become more wide spread. This area was Indian River Lagoon

wow, that's a terrible thing. All kinds of nasty things out there to get you. Seems like Florida is becoming a hot spot of dangerous activity.

I recently read a story about a young child who died while swimming in some lake, I think it was in Louisiana...
So if florida doesn't get you, another state will.

Here is another nasty little guy out there, supposedly this one attaches onto a scent molecule and rides up little nerve impulses into your brain...well something to that degree...
www.cdc.gov...

reply to post by MyHappyDogShiner


You are closer to hitting the nail then you think.

No one factored in what happens to all those chemicals they were washing down the sink and even fewer gave any consideration to the chemicals that we flush down the commode.

Think how long the millions of women all over the world have been flushing their estrogen/ progesterone laden urine into our water supply. Now men have gotten on board with their Viagra and their testosterone gels and creams. Not that any one group is better than or necessarily worse than another when it comes to flushing medications and chemicals into our environment. I honestly think we can all see the cumulative results of all the medications we eliminate in our urine and their impact on our world.

I would suggest this as a subject of research for all. You will be amazingly surprised at what chemicals are not eliminated in our water purification process. In fact I think it is wishful thinking to even call it a purification process.

reply to post by speculativeoptimist

Crabs don't bite.
Not unless you're dumb enough to put your finger in their mouth.

reply to post by 727Sky


Add this to the list of all the other latest bio-weirdness going on. I'll be staying clear of Florida for a while methinks.

reply to post by ExPostFacto


I think there has lways been a lot of barcteria in still water like ponds and lakes. Streams and rivers should be ok if they are not tampered with.

It almost makes you wonder if FL has become perhaps a testing ground for super viruses. Because there was those people acting like zombies, and now this. Maybe tptb are testing out superbugs in hopes of coming up with a bug that could wipe out humanity.

ExPostFacto
They are conditioning the population to fear drinking from natural water sources

You can''t drink the water if it's sea or Brackish water anyway.
The warned not the get in the water with open wounds or eat shellfish and stuff.

You can digest the bacteria though, it can't really be healty to spend some time in the acid o four stomach.
If it enters through an open wound, or gets inhaled by a breath of air, then you have a hostile organism, that will make the most of it's new, perfect environment, with a perfect temperature for it to grow and multiply, a moist zip code and food all as long as your food, can manage to be eaten alive by a minuscule bug that doubles itself every 30 minutes.

The immune system needs time. Antibiotics only work withe the immune system, if it fails before the help arrives....

It doesn't happen a lot though. You only read and hear these weird and scary events because good news isn't interesting.

Global population is still; growing.

reply to post by Phage


You are so right about that. A crab doesn't bite, even if you put your finger in its mouth. Put it will put a hurting on you if you try, if it hasn't lost its claws or if you catch it right after it has shed its shell.

reply to post by NightSkyeB4Dawn


these things are scary, a lot of medicines are not filtered out.... will keep an eye on this thread....so was that guy bitten by something else, could he have been pinched by a crab that caused a cut...

I do believe that there are some strange bugs coming out in Florida. Two years ago my then 15 year old and I were there on a 3 week vacation. On week 2 he became very ill, 100+ temperature, and what I thought at the time your routine flulike symptoms. After 3 days his fever/sickness went away, I thought the worst was over. He wasn’t himself though, he was zombielike – he had a blank glassy stare, I had to ask him things more than once before he would reply – he spoke in monotone when he would speak. His short term memory didn’t work – at dinner he couldn’t tell me what he had eaten for lunch or breakfast. Every so often he would become lucid, would cry (very unlike him) and tell me that he felt everything that was happening was just a dream, nothing felt real. I took him to Florida Hospital where they ran everything from a drug screen to a CAT scan on him. Everything came back clean, the only thing they could find and what they tried to blame it on was a sinus infection. I have had lots of sinus infections, I can tell you right now, and none of them left me in the state that he was in.

It took a month or two once we returned home for him to return to normal. He has no recollection of the time after his temperature started. He looks at photos that we took during that time and none spark any memory whatsoever. No one can tell me what really happened to him while in Florida. I do know it wasn’t a sinus infection.

reply to post by research100


Trust me, if you ever get caught in claws of a crab, you will definitely scream that you were bitten. I have never heard anyone that has been caught by one say "That crab "pinched" me! It hurts something awful, and unless you are very lucky, it will break the skin. Plus the shell of a hard shell crab can be as sharp as a razor.

They aren't too quick to let go either once they have a hold on you. You can break the claw from the crab's body and it can still hold on to whatever part of you it grabbed. Crabs grow new claws if they loose one. It is very common to see a crab with one claw bigger than the other. It doesn't mean it is deformed or mutated, it usually means that one was lost in battle. Most responsible crabbers won't take a male crab under 5 inches, and some (at least were I come from, won't take the females). I don't particularly care for the female anyway. A nice size male crab if it catches right, and in the right place, can do some serious damage.

Yeah, well both my forearms are a disgusting mass of scar tissue due to (probably) getting MRSA from a local hospital after getting splashed with either battery acid or radiator fluid and going in for treatment... I covered my face with my arms when an idiot who was smoking and/or opening a hot radiator on a freshly driven car caused a small explosion near me.

The burns were minor but the resultant infection was not. I watched as the little germs merrily ate their way up my arms. Long story shorter, vit C isn't b.s. as an anti-infection agent when the broad spectrum anti-biotics did nothing but make me nauseous. Tough microbes.

When one really thinks about the forces lined up against us, biological and not, it's actually amazing we live as long as most do. I wonder if the flesh munching microorganisms have even smaller bugs that eat them? Can't we all just get along?