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Flesh-eating bacteria attacks another Fla. man who’s clinging to life

He was infected through a minor crab bite; medics removed arm skin and tissue down to the muscle and hope he survives

Daily Mail

YULEE, Fla. — A minor crab bite has left a 77-year-old Florida man fighting for his life after he was infected with the flesh-eating virus that claimed its ninth victim over the weekend.

George Clarke, of Yulee, was out crabbing Saturday night in Nassau County at the Georgia-Florida state line when a crustacean snapped at him, infecting the elderly man with Vibrio vulnificus.

So far, 27 cases of the flesh-eating infection have been confirmed in Florida this year, nine of them fatal.

Read full story: ANOTHER man, 77, left clinging to life after flesh-eating bacteria that already killed NINE attacks him through crab bite