MILLVILLE -?Two weeks from a South Jersey man contracted a flesh-eating bacteria after a crabbing trip his condition will continue to deteriorate.
The category of Angel Perez, 60,?told Ocean City Patch?that he’s struggle to talk well and it’s facing several amputations because is treated at Cooper University Hospital. Perez was basically treated on July 2 after he went crabbing inside Matt's Landing area, that’s the main Maurice River.
Cumberland County Health Official Megan Sheppard told New Jersey 101.5 that Perez was in contact with a bacteria called vibrio vulnificus. Normally individuals are encountered with the bacteria when they eat raw or uncooked shellfish all of which will experience gastrointestinal illnesses as a result. Those usually only are two or three days. However, in the event the bacteria gets into the bloodstream, as it did with Perez, the consequences might be considerably more severe, in accordance with Sheppard.
His daughter, Dilena Perez-Dilan, told Patch he "will miss his fingers and a few toes," and will lose most of his limbs to amputation.
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