Gulf's Flesh-Eating Bug Eats Man's Leg

A man who visited a Louisiana coastal town plagued with woe since the April 2010 BP oil catastrophe, Grand Isle, nearly died and is suffering from a flesh-eating bacterium, Vibrio vulnificus, that entered an open cut on his leg while he was there. While Vibrio vulnificus is more notably found in raw Gulf oysters, it also can be deadly if entering an open wound. (See: Vampire of Macondo.) While fishing on Louisiana's Gulf coastal rocks in early June, Richard Garey fell and cut his left leg. "Thought I probably sprang my ankle very badly," Garey recounted.



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