A Florida mother of three is warning other beachgoers after nearly losing her life to a deadly flesh-eating bacterial infection that ravaged her leg and left her and her family traumatized.
On July 27, Genevieve Gallagher, 49, of Pensacola, went boating with her husband, Dana, and their 7‑year‑old daughter, Mila. Gallagher had a small cut on her left leg, protected by a waterproof bandage. Though she rinsed the wound in fresh water when she returned home, she thought little of it for the first couple of days.
By Wednesday of that week, while working as a coordinator at a physician’s practice in a hospital, Gallagher noticed her leg had become swollen, hot to the touch, and was starting to turn dark…