BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A summer day at the beach turned into a life-threatening battle for a Lafayette man who contracted Vibrio vulnificus, a rare but dangerous flesh-eating bacterium that lives in warm, salty waters and can also be contracted from raw seafood.
Jeremy Noel, 47, said a dip in the Gulf during a trip to Mississippi nearly cost him his life.
“I was shivering, I couldn’t walk, lost all control of bodily functions,” Noel recalled…