Local health officials warn residents against flesh eating bacteria
As waters heat up this summer, health experts are urging people to take precautions against vibrio, the bacteria which can cause serious and sometimes life-threatening illness. As…
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Doctor explains how to reduce risk of exposure to flesh-eating bacteria
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) -- A dangerous flesh eating bacteria has returned to The Gulf. Vibrio is a type of flesh-eating bacterium, which you’ve probably heard…
Tourist Fighting Flesh Eating Bacteria
A Baton Rouge man visiting South Mississippi is now fighting for his life at Bay St. Louis Hospital after contracting a flesh eating virus here on the Coast. Richard Empson’s niece, Elizabeth Daggett, joins us on the phone.
Man Who Loses Leg to Vibrio to Cross Ocean Springs Bridge
An Ocean Springs man who lost his leg two years ago to the vibrio vulnificus bacteria, will beat the odds this weekend.