A 12-year-old girl contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while on vacation in Florida

[yortsed snacilbuper]

A day at the beach has turned into weeks of pain and agony for an Indiana teenager after she contracted a flesh-eating disease in Florida.

At first 12-year-old Kylei Brown and her family couldn't figure out just what was going on with her. The family, from Indiana, arrived in Destin earlier this month on vacation.

It's fast moving and deadly

The family reached out to Kylei's doctor on the way back to Indiana. The doctor told Brown to take Kylei to the emergency room at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, and that's when the family found out that the infection behind her knee was necrotizing fascitis, a rare flesh-eating disease. It's fast moving and deadly, and 1 in 3 people who get it die, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

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[dem4decades]

1. Horrible. Good luck to her.

[happyaccident]

2. As the ocean warms up this will happen in the northern waters too

[Wounded Bear]

3. Yeah, like last years algal blooms in Fla waters...

warmer waters means more microbial life, of many different forms.

[malaise]

4. Just remove all the regulations and let the polluters

expel sewage and anything else into rivers and the coastal waters


Let's have some more oil wells to boot.

This youngster is lucky - she's alive

[MontanaMama]

5. Yikes. Poor kid.

I hope she makes it with her leg intact.

You know what though? What really irks me about this story and the scads of other reports of folks who have an unexpected accident or health crisis is that in this country the first thing so many families have to do is set up a darned GoFundMe page in an effort to not lose everything while battling to save their own lives or the lives of their kids. Like fighting for your life and that of your loved ones isn't hard enough. I know I'm preaching to the choir here but goddammit we should be doing better in this country.

[area51]

13. +1 n/t

[smirkymonkey]

6. Poor little girl.

There have been so many stories of nightmare situations in the oceans lately, especially along the east coast. It seems like it would be a wise idea to stay out of the water.

As for me, I have decided to become a hardcore pool rat. I don't need the anxiety of all the drama that goes on in the ocean. I used to love it, but not so much anymore.

[jberryhill]

7. Like to prove that, wouldn't you?

Get your picture in the National Geographic...

[smirkymonkey]

9. Prove that I am now a hardcore pool rat?

Or prove that the ocean is dangerous. I can definitely prove that I am a pool rat. And I can also prove that the ocean is dangerous. I suppose you don't want loads of boring evidence so here is just a sample:

[jberryhill]

10. Not in these waters...

[smirkymonkey]

11. Are you swimming on Cape Cod?

That is where there have been numerous sightings of Great Whites lately (Amity Island is Martha's Vineyard). Tons of seals means tons of sharks. Spotted out by Wellfleet and Chatham. https://www.wwlp.com/news/more-great-white-sharks-spotted-off-of-cape-cod/

Eventually they will end up out near the Vineyard toward the end of the summer. I grew up spending summers at the Cape and never saw a shark. Ever. Now, I would not even set foot in the water down there as much as I love it.

It gets worse every year. The Great Whites prefer the warmer water and New England beach water has always been freezing until recently. They are all over the place now because of the seals.

[Blue_true]

8. About a year and a half ago doctors at the University of Florida saved the life of a

young man who had brain eating bacteria from a swim in a lake. They lowered his body temperature to the point where he went into a suspended state coma. The procedure also caused the bacteria to go dormant and allowed doctors to figure out a medicine regimine to kill it, which they did successfully.

[superpatriotman]

12. Gulf of Mexico

A toxic soup from oil spills (past and ongoing for years)