Singaporean Man Gets Eaten By His Dinner’s Flesh-eating Bacteria March 23 2007

[Watchman]

Singaporean Man Gets Eaten By His
Dinner’s Flesh-eating Bacteria
March 23rd, 2007

As if the flesh-eating bacteria craze descending on a little Australian seaside hamlet earlier this month wasn’t enough, here’s your Singaporean poor guy Tan Boon Hock dying 48 hours after he was pricked by his supposed dinner of live crab and got infected with a flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio, further giving The Host director Bong Joon-ho new delightful material for his next ugly-large-river-lizard-eats-sidewalk-vendors auteuring vehicle.

If you’re finding trouble understanding what this nasty Vibrio thing is all about, here’s an earlier news report of a man who had it all and lived, plus a totally different victim showing off his half-eaten leg after the jump.

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[Watchman]

Dr. Cole's Emergency Treatments
4/26/2005
Florida Hospital Doctor Saves Patient’s Legs From Deadly Flesh-eating Bacteria

Tim Peterson, 46, thought he would never walk out of Florida Hospital Orlando with his legs after he acquired a life and limb threatening infection in the Gulf of Mexico. But after seven months, 15 surgeries, and months of rehab Peterson is looking forward to getting his life back to normal.

“Once this disease, called Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh eating bacteria, enters the bloodstream, it can cause a severe and life-threatening illness, decreased blood pressure, and skin lesions,” said Dr. J. Dean Cole, Medical Director of the Florida Hospital Orthopaedic Institute Fracture Care Center. “He is very lucky to not only have his legs still, but his life.”

The Orlando resident was fishing 120 miles off shore in the Gulf of Mexico, when he pricked his finger trying to pick up a barnacle encrusted buoy. Through this small cut, the germ Vibrio vulnificus entered his body. Within hours, he began feeling the affects of this life-threatening germ. First, his right leg began hurting, followed by chills and a fever. After 48 hours the condition continued to worsen, sending Peterson to the emergency room at Florida Hospital Orlando. The infection had already set in and started eating away at the soft tissue in his legs. “My wife watched as the black, blue, and purple blisters grew up my legs right in front of her eyes,” said Peterson.

Vibrio vulnificus is a flesh-eating bacterium that lives in salt water and is found more often around Florida because of the warmer waters. The bacteria can enter the body through a cut so small; it might not even be noticeable. According to the CDC, Vibrio vulnificus bloodstream infections are fatal about 50% of the time. The sooner the condition is treated, the better the chance of survival. In an effort to save not only Peterson’s legs but also his life, he had to undergo surgery immediately.

The first surgery, Peterson underwent with Dr. Cole was to apply an external fixator (cage) to both his legs to begin the tedious process of trying to decrease the swelling with 24-hour a day elevation of the legs above his heart. Next, began the painful process of serial debridements every four to seven days. This involves removing the dead tissue and applying temporary skin to allow for the healthy tissue to regenerate. After a half dozen debridement surgeries and stabilization of the infection, dermal reconstruction treatment began. The reconstruction process involved three additional surgeries for skin grafting, in which healthy tissue was taken from his thighs. After completing all of his surgeries Peterson would enter rehab to regain balance and walking ability.

Peterson is still in rehab and has months to go before he will have the same strength in his legs as he did before. But Peterson feels fortunate to still have his legs and his life. Once he is completely recovered he plans to build his wife a new home with a fresh water lake, so he doesn’t have to go near the salt water again.

 

[tonychat]

that is what happen when you eat meat. you get eaten. if he turn vegetarian, this sort of thing will never happen. besides that, eating veggies gives your good nutrients and minerals for robust health.

look at what happen to a meat eating loser now.

 

[Watchman]

No lah that guy act hero ate raw crabs laced with bacterium unknown .

 

[tonychat]

No lah that guy act hero ate raw crabs laced with bacterium unknown .

raw or cooked still the same, you will get screwed in the end for eating meat.

 

[saratogas]

That's why PM says Mia Hum, Mia Hum...

 

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Vibrio :: Singapore health experts warn of flesh-eating bug
Doctors and health experts in Singapore have warned people that at least 90 people have been attacked by a flesh eating bug over the past five years in the island republic and said the species lived in salt water and around crabs, clams, mussles among others.

The warning came in the wake of the death of an elderly man who was bitten by a crab when he was cleaning it before cooking.

The 83-year-old Tan Boon Hock fell ill in Singapore 12 hours after he was infected with Vibrio, a type of water borne flesh eating bacteria and died two days later.

Once the bacteria entered the body, usually through a break in the skin, like a bite, it could produce toxins and spread rapidly affecting organs like kidney and liver, the experts were quoted by the media here as saying.

According to Changi General Hospital at least 90 people had been attacked by the flesh eating bugs in the past five years.

The head of the department of the infectious diseases at the National University Hospital said the mortality rate was very high. He said there were high rate of survival chances if the disease was detected early in a young and healthy victim.