"Just going to the beach or going to the bay is not going to make you sick," she said."These people usually have a cut and the infected water gets into the cut, or they eat raw seafood that's infected."bacteria cause an estimated 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the United States each year, with most infections in May through October when water temperatures are warm, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
One in five people with this type of infection die, sometimes within days of becoming ill, the CDC warns. Because the bacteria thrive in warmer, salty water, it's usually found mostly in southern waters, Doktor said.infection began showing up in emergency rooms along the Delaware Bay a few years back, Doktor and her colleagues reported June 18 in theFour of the cases involved middle-aged or older men who had been crabbing in the bay or eating crabs taken from the bay, the doctors said. The fifth case involved a man who worked at a seafood restaurant in New Jersey.
Dr. Amesh Adalja is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in Baltimore. He said,"infections contracted in the Delaware Bay, an area not known to be endemic for the bacteria, should serve as an important reminder that infectious diseases can expand from their traditional areas so long as the environment is hospitable to them." Adalja was not involved with the new report.
"Some people, when they shuck the crabs, they use gloves," she said."I would protect your skin by wearing gloves.""As an infectious disease physician, I don't think people should be eating raw seafood," Doktor said."But if you don't have any of these risk factors, the chance of infection is much, much lower."SOURCES: Katherine Doktor, M.D., infectious disease specialist, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, N.J.; Amesh Adalja, M.D.
Stand4Justice44 This is a danger for marine animals too.
Yikes! This is good to be aware of.
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Or maybe it is being brought in by to much Foreign trade or maybe illegal immigrants . Be honest they cannot say that it’s not . They know that’s how diseases like Zika and West Nile Viruses are getting here .
Oh good - another thing to worry about. 🤷🏻♀️
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