Archive: https://archive.today/X9GnR From the post: >>Another four people have died after being infected with a flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in coastal waters, officials have said. Vibrio vulnificus lives in warm water and can enter the body through open wounds, causing pain, redness and swelling before the skin turns black as flesh dies. In severe cases, it can spread to the blood and cause the fatal complication sepsis. The fatalities were reported in Louisiana, the second state to reveal deaths from the disease this year, with officials raising the alarm, saying the number was well above the state's average of about one death from Vibrio every year. Louisiana also reported 17 hospitalizations from the disease.