- Cason Jager, 26, died Tuesday in Leesburg, Florida
- Family believe he contracted Vibro vulnificus while swimming in the Weeki Wachee River
- Florida Department of Health says nine cases have been reported
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WIKI:
History
The pathogen was first isolated in 1976 from a series of blood culture samples submitted to the CDC in
Atlanta.
[6] It was described as a "lactose-positive vibrio".
[6] It was subsequently given the name
Beneckea vulnifica,
[1] and finally
Vibrio vulnificus by Farmer in 1979.
[2]
Increasing seasonal temperatures and decreasing coastal salinity levels seem to favor a greater concentration of
Vibrio within filter-feeding shellfish of the US Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico, especially oysters (
Crassostrea virginica). Scientists have frequently demonstrated the presence of
Vibrio vulnificus
in the gut of oysters and other shellfish and in the intestines of fish
that inhabit oyster reefs. The vast majority of people who develop
sepsis from
V. vulnificus became ill after they ate raw oysters, most of these cases have been men.
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