‘My feet never got wet.I was on a dock,’ Naples man said of mystery how he contracted flesh-eating disease
- An 88-year-old man is recovering after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, in Collier County.
- The man, Albert Allison, is unsure how he was infected as he was fishing from a dock and never entered the water.
- Vibrio vulnificus can be contracted when the bacteria enters an open wound from warm brackish water. You can also get it by eating raw oysters.
Albert Allison is back home after a scare of a lifetime with Vibrio vulnificus, more commonly known as a flesh-eating disease.
He was discharged from a rehabilitation center on Sept. 14 and is doing better than he expected.
“I have nurses who come to our home and change the dressing every day,” he said…