{"id":34220,"date":"2017-07-10T06:36:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34220"},"modified":"2017-07-10T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:36:22","slug":"alabama-officials-report-3-cases-of-flesh-eating-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/alabama-officials-report-3-cases-of-flesh-eating-bacteria.html","title":{"rendered":"Alabama officials report 3 cases of flesh-eating bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Alabama officials report 3 cases of flesh-eating bacteria<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Alabama officials report 3 cases of flesh-eating bacteria:- Mobile County health officials are confirming three cases of flesh-eating bacteria, or \u201cvibrio vulnificus,\u201d in the county.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Barbara Gibbs, who oversees the Infectious Disease and Control Department with the county health department, says one case was from an individual who consumed raw oysters in another state. The other two, she says, were due to exposing open wounds in area waters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">WALA-TV reports the latter two cases happened during June \u2014 one in the Mississippi Sound and the other on Dauphin Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Health officials say all three cases are considered mild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Dr. Karen Landers with the Alabama Department of Public Health says they\u2019re working with Mississippi health officials to further investigate the case that involved a Mississippi woman who was fishing off Fairhope Pier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/wreg.com\/2017\/07\/09\/alabama-officials-report-3-cases-of-flesh-eating-bacteria\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/alabama-officials-report-3-cases-of-flesh-eating-bacteria.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama officials report 3 cases of flesh-eating bacteria Alabama officials report 3 cases of flesh-eating bacteria:- Mobile County health officials are confirming three cases of flesh-eating bacteria, or \u201cvibrio vulnificus,\u201d in the county. Barbara Gibbs, who oversees the Infectious Disease and Control Department with the county health department, says one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21059],"class_list":["post-34220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-alabama-officials-report-3-cases-of-flesh-eating-bacteria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}