In the summer of 2015, just a few hours after Florida native Justin Grubich noticed a light abrasion on his elbow, he knew something was terribly wrong.
In the summer of 2015, just a few hours after Florida native Justin Grubich noticed a light abrasion on his elbow, he knew something was terribly wrong.
“I woke up in the middle of the night, and my elbow had blown up, like a pimple coming off of it,” he remembered. “I thought, oh, I got just a little bit of an infection or something, and I tried to go back to sleep. But it started throbbing and throbbing. By about 6 a.m., my arm had just blown up.”
Hours later, Grubich was in the hospital, with medical personnel digging deep to evacuate the dying flesh. The suspicion: infection by Vibrio vulnificus, commonly referred to as flesh-eating bacteria.
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