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10/27/2017 / By JD Heyes

Man who helped repair homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey dies from flesh-eating bacterial infection

As tens of thousands of people begin to resurrect their lives in Texas following Hurricane Harvey earlier this fall, one man who was helping many people do just that has died after contracting a rare flesh-eating bacteria. The Houston Chronicle reports that Josue Zurita, 31, a man who was helping residents rebuild their damaged homes, […]

09/30/2017 / By JD Heyes

Woman dies of flesh-eating bacteria after wading through flood waters in storm-ravaged Houston

Earlier this month we reported that as flood waters receded in storm-ravaged Texas and Florida from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma respectively the risk of contracting tissue-eating bacteria was much higher. And while that story dealt primarily with brain-eating bacteria, the danger that other micro-sized flesh consumers could emerge was laid out. It now appears as […]

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