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(NewsNation) — The h2o that Hurricane Milton leaves down whitethorn beryllium conscionable arsenic deadly arsenic the winds and tempest surge, according to infectious illness experts. Flesh-eating bacteria is retired determination and looking for a mode into your body.
“Within the waters, we find this vibrio ... it’s really a bacteria. And bacteria tin beryllium ingested successful the water,” said Dr. Norman Beatty, with the infectious diseases part astatine the University of Florida.
“Most of the time, what we spot aft a hurricane is we person volunteers oregon homeowners are out, and they are cleaning up the mess. They’re retired successful the tempest surge waters. And that vibrio bacteria is penetrating done the skin. You measurement connected a nail, portion your leg, you get an unfastened coiled and the bacteria gets in,” Beatty said.
Beatty told NewsNation’s “Banfield” that flesh-eating bacteria took rather a toll 2 years agone aft Hurricane Ian.
“There were 38 confirmed cases close aft the storm, and astatine slightest 11 radical died,” helium said.
