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Published On: Wed, Oct 30th, 2013

Florida: New Vibrio case reported from Escambia County, brings total to 37

The Florida Department of Health (FL-DOH) issued new Vibrio vulnificus numbers today and it show that Escambia County has reported its second case, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 37.

In addition, the death toll has risen by one as the FL-DOH reports a fatality from Citrus County making it the 11th this year.

LISTEN: Florida Vibrio vulnificus update on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show.

Escambia County map Image/David Benbennick

Escambia County map
Image/David Benbennick

According to the Todar’s Online Textbook of Bacteriology, V. vulnificus causes a disease with over a 50 percent mortality rate, and it causes 95 percent of all seafood-related deaths.

Vibrio vulnificus is an emerging pathogen of humans. It causes wound infections, gastroenteritis, or a syndrome known as primary septicemia. It was first recognized as an agent of disease in 1976.  The first documented case of disease caused by the bacterium was in 1979.

V. vulnificus causes disease in individuals who eat contaminated seafood (usually raw or undercooked oysters) or have an open wound that is exposed to seawater. Among healthy people, ingestion of V. vulnificus can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.  Most V. vulnificus infections are acute and have no long-term consequences.

In immunocompromised persons, particularly those with chronic liver disease, V. vulnificus can invade the bloodstream from either a wound or from the GI tract, causing a severe and life-threatening illness called primary septicemia, characterized by fever, chills, septic shock and death. Blistering skin lesions accompany the disease in about 70% of the cases. V. vulnificus bloodstream infections are fatal about 50% of the time.

These individuals are 80-200 times more likely to develop V. vulnificus primary septicemia than are healthy people. For this particular risk group, the infection carries one of the highest mortality rates of all bacterial infections.

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