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See other Health, Science & Technology Articles Title: Flesh-Eating Bacteria Claims Life Of Texas Dentist A dentist from Houston, Texas, has died after becoming infected with a flesh-eating bacteria. Dr. Kenneth Dean Creamer, 52, became infected after suffering a cut to his leg while he was fishing near Port O'Connor, on the Gulf coast, according to officials. Creamer was being treated since July 17, two days after he became infected with the saltwater bacteria vibrio vulnificus. According to the Texas Department of Health, Creamer is the seventh vibrio vulnificus related death in Texas this year. The bacteria is common in warm Gulf waters. If caught early enough, the infection can be successfully treated with antibiotics. Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium in the same family as those that cause cholera. It normally lives in warm seawater and is part of a group of vibrios that are called "halophilic" because they require salt. Vibrio vulnificus can cause an infection of the skin when open wounds are exposed to warm seawater; these infections may lead to skin breakdown and ulceration. Persons who are immunocompromised are at higher risk for invasion of the organism into the bloodstream and potentially fatal complications.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest I've been fighting pseudomona for over a month. This strain has plasmids that produce toxins deteriorating skin two inches away from the site of active infection. It also produces agents that repel and/or dissolve white blood cells. It Cultures show immunity to several classes of antibiotics. The doctors gave me double doses of florinated quinalone saying it would either kill me or the bug. It has reduced the bacterial activity by about 95%. There are new breeds of old bugs that that will kill fast. The amusing thing is I first dealt with the bug more than 20 years ago because the genus also eats diesel and aviation fuel, crashing hekicopters and sinking boats during storms. RLK posted on 2004-08-15 00:14:28 ET Reply Trace 2. To: RLK (#1) Your comment made me think about something. Didn't we come up with oil-eating bacteria some years back to combat oil- spills? Were there ever any outbreaks of flesh eating bacteria before that? Could the flesh-eating bacteria, somehow be some recombinant strain of the oil- eating bacteria, and other less virulent bacterias common to humans? I'm getting a really sick feeling about this. Goldi-Lox posted on 2004-08-15 00:26:54 ET Reply Trace 3. To: Goldi-Lox (#2)
Didn't we come up with oil-eating bacteria some years back to combat oil- spills? Yes. There have always been 'flesh eating' bacteria. 'It's what they do...it's ALL They do!' Overuse of antibiotics have made them 'resistant' to our weapons of mass biologicalbug destruction however.
bunnyrabbit posted on 2004-08-15 00:31:30 ET Reply Trace 4. To: Goldi-Lox (#2)
bacteria some years back to combat oil- spills? There were petro-eating bacteria commercially available more than 20 years ago. They were developed for cleaning the bilges of ships. If you had an oil spill inside a ship you would throw some bugs in the bottom and they would eat the oil. I had a pound of the stuff in my office as a sample. The new resistant bugs are a product of evolution. Staph used to be considered a skin disease. The so-called wonder drugs knocked it in the head. By the early '50s it was noticed the bug was becoming resistant to penicillin. As new antibiotics were developed, staph developed resistance to them. Additionally, staph evolved the ability to infect heart and bone. There are now strains of staph and pseudomonas that are death sentences. The same is true of venerial diseases. Gonnorhea was once a death sentence. With development of wonder drugs it became a joke. New we are seeing development of antibiotic resistant VD that is returning to older levels of lethality. It's the same old bug, but just stronger. There is a new bug out which is a nightmare. It was mentioned in an article here two months ago. RLK posted on 2004-08-15 00:52:13 ET Reply Trace 5. To: RLK (#4)
Gonnorhea was once a death sentence. I think that's syphillis. The clap can have pretty bad side effects if untreated but I don't think it ever killed anyone. TooConservative posted on 2004-08-15 07:01:54 ET Reply Trace 6. To: TLBSHOW (#0)
A dentist from Houston, Texas, has died after becoming infected with a flesh-eating bacteria. Dr. Kenneth Dean Creamer, 52, became infected after suffering a cut to his leg while he was fishing near Port O'Connor, on the Gulf coast, according to officials. As someone who survived surgery to cut away flesh-eating bacteira before it cut me away,I can tell you for a certainy that "the saltwater bacteria vibrio vulnificus" may be one strain of it,but it sure as hell isn't the only one. Mine had nothing to do with salt water. I THINK it came from a boil that burst and drained into my bloodstream rather than outside. I don't know for sure though,and the doctors told me nobody knows for sure what causes it. sneakypete posted on 2004-08-15 09:58:53 ET Reply Trace 7. To: bunnyrabbit (#0) ping. sneakypete posted on 2004-08-15 10:00:46 ET Reply Trace 8. To: sneakypete (#7) Thanks for the ping. You're a lucky man. Dangerous infection near good blood supply...lucky lucky lucky. Make sure you put your Guardian Angel on your Christmas card list, hear? Oop, wait, you don't believe in them LOL. Send your surgeon a happy every once in a while then!
bunnyrabbit posted on 2004-08-15 11:11:07 ET Reply Trace Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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