flesh eating bacteria

[foxtrapper1972]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/22/us-usa-virginia-bacteria-idUSKBN0GM1P920140822

 

[SteveG]

Makes me consider only wet wading the little mountain tribs anymore.

 

[afishinado]

The pic I saw in it's early stages looks just like Fade's pic...

 

[KeithS]

So much for HIPPA.

 

[gfen]

Thanks, Obama.

 

[jeremymcon]

Yea those vibrio species can be nasty. When I was in school we talked about a case study where a man in Japan was poked by the spine of a fish he was cleaning, went septic and died the next day.

 

[Alnitak]

You're more likely to get this infection from eating raw oysters or getting poked by a spine on a ray, etc. than by wet wading anywhere here in PA.

Like most of these types of infections, they're rare and you're more likely to get it if you're already immunocompromised in some way. If that's the case, then you can just as likely get it in an open hangnail when you put your fish back in the water, etc. In the case of Vibrio vulnificus, the bacterium responsible for the infections in the article, you're more susceptible if you have some form of liver disease like cirrhosis, etc.

There is definitely some risk associated with wet wading, but the inside of your waders is also a nasty environment and not without its own risks.

Jeff

 

[LongWader]

The worst polluters by far in the Chesapeake Region are the County Sewage Treat Plants in Maryland and the local government agencies that refuse to maintain and manage them properly. Maybe we should send them for a swim downstream from the plants they are supposed to be managing.

 

[PennypackFlyer]

Jeff wrote: but the inside of your waders is also a nasty environment and not without its own risks. Unquote.

You do know that you can clean them don't you? It's amazing that things can come clean with a little soap and water.

 

[JackM]

I feareth not my own sweat[eth].

 

[Stagger_Lee]

Alnatik wrote:

You're more likely to get this infection from eating raw oysters or getting poked by a spine on a ray, etc. than by wet wading anywhere here in PA.

Yea .. I could be wrong but when I think of the Potomac river I think East River or Hudson in NY ... both I wouldn't swim even with chance of any infection low. Just dirty water and different then the majority (not all) of waters in Pa.

 

[midnightangler]

I know of at least three people who have contracted flesh eating bacteria from wet wading the little Juniata River. I don't recommend wet wading larger rivers in PA or anywhere else in the east.

 

[foxtrapper1972]

Midnightangler- No worries they probably contracted it by eating raw oysters....And by the way the lower Susquehanna is definitely on the mend..Smallmouth are back big time....in fact all our pollution problems are over!