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Man dies after flesh eating bacteria from the Gulf of Mexico infects new tattoo

Tuesday, 6 June 2017, 18:45 MJA Uncategorized 16

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A man in Texas has died after swimming in the Gulf of Mexico with a new tattoo. The unidentified 31-year-old was hospitalized and on life support after he was infected with the bacteria, vibrio vulnificus. One of the safety recommendations for getting a new tattoo is to avoid bathing and swimming because it is easier to pick up an infection. The victim went swimming just 5 days after getting his tattoo.

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16 Comments on Man dies after flesh eating bacteria from the Gulf of Mexico infects new tattoo

  6. You especially don’t want to swim in our gulf with an open wound–it really never gets cold. Vibrio is a huge problem–You really should listen to directions or just don’t get tattoos.

  9. I remain baffled by people to pay good money to get tattoos on conspicuously visible areas, but insist on being in no way judged for having tattoos. Sorry, ain’t happening. You paid to have the thing put where other people have to see it. Don’t expect them to make no judgments about your having paid someone to scar you.

    Tattoo parlors may provide jobs but tattoos themselves have no redeeming social value.

  10. @grool – There may be one redeeming social value for tattoos as part of criminal sentences. For example, tattoo CHILD MOLESTER or RAPIST or AGGRAVATED ASSAULTER, as appropriate, on the foreheads of inmates before release.

  11. @ Uncle Al ~ congratulations, your idea just employed millions of tattoo artists around the world … you just described practically every practicing Islamist around the world …. tat away!

  15. Vibrio is a bitch. It’s associated with oyster bars (clumps of oysters forming hard-as-rock underwater sandbars).

    I fish inshore a lot here in bayou country. I refuse to wade fish – every year handful of wade fishermen die because they got cut whilst wadefishing along these areas, even whilst wearing wadefishing boots. Just a scrape from a rough oyster shell out in the wild is all you need to get infected and start losing limbs & life.

    Me? I’ll stay secure in my kayak, drinking beer with one hand and casting my shrimp-baited dropshot rig with the t’other.

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