Texas Man Infected With Flesh-Eating Bacteria After Beach Trip
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Victim likely contracted infection via an open wound he got from golf cart accident
Vibrio Vulnificus can also be acquired from eating raw seafood
A man from Conroe in Texas is being treated for a flesh-eating bacteria infection that he contracted after an accident on a family trip to the beach.
Robbin Kelly-Dun, the man s wife spoke up to warn the beachgoers and raise awareness about the disease.
Kelly-Dun was on a family trip to Crystal Beach in Galveston County, Texas with her family for her birthday on May 5 when her husband, Darrell, got into a golf cart accident that crushed his legs, KTRK
Updated December 24, 2020 8:35 a.m. EST
A woman who was lit on fire by a stranger in Kinston finally returned home after spending 10 months at the Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill.
It’s been a long journey for 25-year-old Khloe McNeal, but she was determined to make it home by Christmas. I’m a survivor, she says, You know, survivors they don’t quit. They keep going and that’s what I’m doing.
McNeal was on her way to school when a man she didn’t know poured a flammable liquid on her and lit her on fire. For a brief second, she wondered if she would die. But then she heard a clear voice in her mind.