{"id":9920,"date":"2025-07-16T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:38:45","slug":"flesh-eating-bacteria-kills-4-what-is-vibrio-vulnificus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/16\/flesh-eating-bacteria-kills-4-what-is-vibrio-vulnificus\/","title":{"rendered":"Flesh-eating bacteria kills 4; what is Vibrio vulnificus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/news\/trending\/flesh-eating-bacteria-kills-4-what-is-vibrio-vulnificus\/DVQFKGBLGRHGJK3MRLGIJWZUJQ\/\">WHIO TV<\/a> Four people in Florida have died after they contracted flesh-eating bacteria this year, according to the state\u2019s health department. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridahealth.gov\/diseases-and-conditions\/vibrio-infections\/vibrio-vulnificus\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"The agency, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The agency<\/a>&nbsp;said there was one fatal case in each of the following counties: Bay County, Broward County, Hillsborough County, and St. John\u2019s County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, there have been 11 cases in the state this year, according to the most recent data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\", opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/finzennews.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\", opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/finzennews.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHIO TV Four people in Florida have died after they contracted flesh-eating bacteria this year, according to the state\u2019s health department. The agency&nbsp;said there was one fatal case in each of the following counties: Bay County, Broward County, Hillsborough County, and St. John\u2019s County. Overall, there have been 11 cases in the state this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920","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=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9921,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions\/9921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}