The patients, evidently evacuees, appear to have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, a water-borne pathogen that is related to the bacteria that cause cholera and is common in water off the Gulf of Mexico.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Post-Hurricane Diseases II
Despite their earlier optimism, the CDC reports five deaths from Vibrio vulnificus.
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