Texas man dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria in Gulf waters

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A man from Texas fishing in the Gulf of Mexico died after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria found in the coastal waters where oysters live, the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health Department said Tuesday. The elderly patient was "fishing with water" with open wounds before being transported to a hospital in the area suffering from "severe leg pain and clbadic signs" of a Vibrio bacterial infection [19659003]. , fever, nausea, severe pain and vomiting.

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The unidentified man died Saturday, just 24-36 hours after his admission at the hospital, despite extreme measures to save him, including amputation

. Emilie Prot, Regional Director of Health Services of the State Department of Texas, told Fox News that, despite the presence of many species of Vibrio bacteria, this patient died of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacterium

in coastal waters where oysters live and cause about 80,000 diseases and at least 100 deaths in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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People can contract the bacteria by exposing an injury to contaminated water or by eating raw or uncooked seafood.

Last week, a Florida man died eating an oyster with the same species of bacteria, reports the New York Post.

According to the CDC, most infections occur from May to October due to the increase in water temperature. .