{"id":3194,"date":"2023-04-11T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T20:16:10","slug":"flesh-eating-bacteria-that-kills-almost-one-in-five-infected-spreading-up-east-us-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/04\/11\/flesh-eating-bacteria-that-kills-almost-one-in-five-infected-spreading-up-east-us-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Flesh-eating&#8217; bacteria that kills almost one in five infected spreading up east US coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/flesh-eating-bacteria-that-kills-almost-one-in-five-infected-spreading-up-east-us-coast\/ar-AA19IiAV\">MSN News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A rare \u2018flesh-eating\u2019 bacterium that kills almost one in five infected is spreading up the east coast of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\">US\u00a0<\/a>due to warming waters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vibrio vulnificus is an \u2018opportunistic bacterial pathogen\u2019 found in coastal waters. Exposure to the bacteria through skin lesions can cause necrotising fasciitis, where tissue around the wound dies, requiring urgent removal of the affected area and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/03\/06\/i-lost-my-leg-to-flesh-eating-bacteria-now-im-grateful-to-be-alive-18391270\/\" target=\"_blank\">resulting in limb amputation in around 10% of cases<\/a>. Although cases are rare, infection by the bacteria leads to death in 18% of cases, sometimes as quickly as 48 hours after exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of researchers from the UK, Spain and the US found that between 1988 and 2018, cases on the east coast of the US increased eightfold \u2013 from ten to 80 cases annually \u2013 and the northernmost occurrence shifted 48km a year as waters warm due to climate change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1980s, infections were rare beyond the southern state of Georgia \u2013 on roughly the same latitude as Morocco. By 2018, cases were recorded as far north as Philadelphia, which lies on a similar latitude to northern Portugal.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSN News A rare \u2018flesh-eating\u2019 bacterium that kills almost one in five infected is spreading up the east coast of the\u00a0US\u00a0due to warming waters. Vibrio vulnificus is an \u2018opportunistic bacterial pathogen\u2019 found in coastal waters. Exposure to the bacteria through skin lesions can cause necrotising fasciitis, where tissue around the wound dies, requiring urgent removal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#flesheatingbacteria vibrio vulnificus spreading in warm waters of #eastcoast #usa #necrotisingfaciitis","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-11-at-16.12.43.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}