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VICTORIA, Texas – A Victoria man who died a week ago was reportedly killed by a flesh-eating bacteria after a camping trip to Magnolia Beach in Matagorda Bay.
His wife said that she had gone from planning a family vacation to the beach to having her funeral a few days later.
Debra Mattix said her husband, Gary Evans, 56, had no injuries or apparent cuts that would have allowed the bacteria to enter his body.
"His hat fell into the water several times, and he picked it up, and you just laugh at it, and he put it back on his head, did not it? ? " Debra Mattix asked. "Was it the front door then? I do not know, could he have done that when he took the crab pots out of the water and the breeze, a part of it? Water that was squirting on it then? But to say that we floated in the water, no, we have never been in the water.
Mattix said that Evans' condition had worsened worse and worse this weekend.
She added that the surgeons thought they had removed all affected tissue, but that the bacteria had already entered Evans' blood.
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The human organs began to fail and on Monday he was dead.
"It turned out that this bacteria is a lot more horrible than anyone thinks, and it's fast," said Mattix. "It destroys everything in its path, stay out of the water, stay out of the water for a while anyway, it's in our garden, practically, it's scary."
Mattix now has a GoFundMe account to pay for funeral expenses and medical expenses.
There are more flesh eating vibrio bacteria present in the water during the hottest months of the year. It is usually contracted by open wounds by individuals whose immune system is weakened.
In February, KHOU 11 showed how researchers in Houston were creating a vaccine against the disease. However, vaccine development is expected to last 10 to 15 years.
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