By Julie Fidler
A Buda, Texas, man has been hospitalized with a flesh-eating infection after spending a day at the beach with his family. He is the second Texas man to be sickened by the bacteria in two weeks.
Adrian Ruiz, 42, spent the day with his family in Port Aransas, Texas, near Corpus Christi, to celebrate Father’s Day. But that Sunday, Ruiz developed a fever and headache and noticed a rash on his leg.
Later in the week, the cause of the infection was identified as the Vibrio vulnificus bacteria. These flesh-eating bacteria have toxins that enter existing cuts and scrapes and kill …read more
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