‘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 or by eating raw oysters.
Albert Allison may never know how he contracted vibrio vulnificus, what’s commonly referred to as flesh-eating bacteria that can be deadly.
It may remain a mystery for the 88-year-old who was fishing off a shuttle boat dock in the Windstar on Naples Bay community in East Naples. He never got wet.
That is one way people get infected, where the vibrio bacteria in warm brackish water gets into the bloodstream through an open wound or cut, and destroys the flesh and tissue around the wound, according to the state Department of Health…