‘We lost the fight’: A teacher’s painful lesson on the deadly bacteria that killed her husband

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Virginia teacher is sharing a painful lesson after losing her husband to a rare but deadly flesh-eating bacterium called vibrio.

Joyce D’Arcy is mourning her husband Derek’s death, which happened just 13 days after a seemingly harmless trip to Virginia Beach in August, their favorite place.

“It came from our favorite place to go — Virginia Beach was our favorite place to go,” Joyce said. “It’s just so sad that the best place we like to go is where he got sick.”…

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