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NORFOLK, Virginia (WTKR / CNN) – It was supposed to be a fun day at the beach, but instead, a woman from Virginia is recovering from a flesh-eating bacteria.
A Virginia said she was infected with a flesh-eating bacteria during a day of entertainment at Ocean View Beach in Norfolk. (Source: Amanda Edwards / WTKR / CNN)
Amanda Edwards says it happened after a quick swim at Ocean View Beach.
"I was just like: 'Oh my God, my leg will fall,'" she says. "It's the only thing I could go on thinking about."
Edwards can now laugh, thinking back to his potentially fatal fear of health.
"It's spread very quickly," Edwards said. "The way it spread, it got your leg up."
She says it happened last week.
"I was like," It's really hot, let's go outside. " So we went outside to the beach, "she said." I only spent 10 minutes in the water. "
The next day she began to feel sick and noticed a lump on her leg.
"I ignored it for a few days, and it just started getting bigger and bigger, to the point where I could not walk," Edwards said.
The doctors treated the infection and told him that the bacteria had probably penetrated his skin by a cut.
It came about at the time when there was a bathing notice at the beach.
"Please check the news and make sure there is not, like a notice, about, since there were no signs out there," said Edwards.
The Norfolk Department of Health has stated that germs and bacteria can enter the water in different ways, such as washing swimmers' bodies or relieving themselves.
They say to avoid swallowing water and bathing after a heavy rain.
As for Edwards, she says she stops sneaking off for the rest of the summer.
"Whenever I go in the water, I'm going to wonder where I've had this bad experience," Edwards said.
Health officials say to avoid water if you have an open wound or if you are sick. And once you come out of the water, you should shower with soap as soon as possible.
In Alabama, a man's life was in danger after contracting a flesh-eating bacterium, also known as necrotizing fasciitis, after kayaking on the waters of the Tennessee River, WAFF reported on Monday. A Memphis man died from a similar infection that his family thought he had contracted at a beach in Destin, Florida, WMC reported on July 12.
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