Man dies from flesh eating bacteria at Crystal Beach

[@Simplyolivia1000]

I'm old enough to remember going into the ocean to help wounds to heal faster....Now...this....Humans are destroying nature

[@c.l.j.jardell5811]

me too and i remember the beach being a pretty and clean green color .. not this stuff

[@siameseblue4824]

Exactly! Poison ivy cleared up by going in the ocean.

[@Peace_and_Love_777.....]

EXACTLY.... the salt water would help....now it doesn't because of all the s*** they are spraying in our skies.

[@IND4GR0V3]

@@Peace_and_Love_777..... dont forget about all the major beaches and us cities, and other major beaches and cities in the world that consistently dump sewage into the ocean not far from the beaches

[@ManSeekingChrist]

@@c.l.j.jardell5811 When was it this color last? the 80's, 70's?

[@JB-nc1it]

There’s literally flesh eating bacteria in the coast water, I’m from Gulfport (MS) and they tell you that. WE don’t go in the water, if WE (the people who live there ) don’t go in the water… what do you think that means ? DONT GO IN THE WATER. Y’all always doing something

[@dna3930]

Rule one observe locals and what they do. When in Rome

[@vogelvogeltje]

@@dna3930 I guess being a sheep has it’s ups

[@ccorn8139]

This is purposely poisoned by someone. Get up and do something please!

[@JB-nc1it]

@@ccorn8139 do what ?

[@ccorn8139]

@@JB-nc1it get the bad guys

[@juliahelland6488]

Unfortunately, I think this will be more common as our waters are becoming more polluted. Very sad! 💯

[@marymadeline9533]

Theirs already swimmers itch in all the waters in Utah too Parasites eating at everyone. Plus amoebas 🦠 eating your brains 🧠. No clean waters anymore. Very 😢

[@benjamindenton9453]

@@marymadeline9533 there never was clean water but it’s getting worse with all the human “waste” were dumping into waterways or pumping directly into the ground to be soaked up

[@marymadeline9533]

@@benjamindenton9453 You got that Right!! Kinda sad 😢 now they are making little beach lagoons from fresh water with all the humans swimming in it and that can drain into our water table.

[@marymadeline9533]

@@rameychisum2891 You may have hit the nail on the head. Covid brought out many things and if your immunity is compromised your body can’t fight anything else so it gives out.

[@BennilocoLoves]

Yet they keep voting in the very people who are killing them.. Nice huh? Hey Republicans? Ya want a future planet? Get the greedy, disgusting republicans OUT!!! VOTE BLUE!!!

[@SOLDOZER]

Galveston Beaches = Sewage runoff water. If you are swimming in the water, you're swimming in human doody.

[@sherylhowell5320]

Fish, sharks, whales, seals, etc...POOP in ocean water, lakes, rivers, ponds. It's NOT just sewer runoff. If you have diabetes, hepatitis or any immunodeficiency syndrome you should avoid natural bodies of water in the summer months. It's common knowledge not rocket science.

[@brionbraziel7968]

All gulf water is ass water, it has to spill out somewhere...

[@nofeelings3489]

...BOI, I never trusted that beach.

[@SOLDOZER]

@@sherylhowell5320 The tests done on the beaches say its human doody. Theres a website that explains it all and tells you the levels. You think they really are constantly testing it to check levels of shrimp poop? No sweet cheeks....its people doody.

[@madasahatter5514]

Say it like it is, they're swimming in sh*te

[@box4859]

The water along the North Texas coast contains sewage dumped in the Mississippi River then into the gulf. You've got to be insane to go in the water. Drinking from your own toilet would be safer.

[@lordofthewoods]

More likely from Texas itself... maybe even Mexico. The water from the Mississippi goes East.

[@mrfixit0067]

I almost lost my arm from that bacteria! Thanks to the doctors at Blake medical they were able to save it.

[@tr4321]

My brother almost lost his leg and his life. Prayers!

[@LovinLife-pv7op]

So explain why the beach is open and especially open to children?

[@jowbloe4700]

🤑🤑🤑

[@pfil.odendron2036]

Stop trying to take our freedom away! Im an american. If i want to go to the beach on a hot texan summer i can and will.

[@loRdpharaoh]

so explain why the dumb ass parents are taking them? no one is forcing anyone to go to lake poo poo

[@dandaddavi]

Because this is America and people are free to be complete idiots, going into bacteria infested water to be eaten alive from the inside out if they choose. Let natural selection take it's course.

[@daddydo17]

@@pfil.odendron2036 Enjoy your 2 day hospital stay before you are consumed by this terrible death.

[@marco3dartist]

"The dude was a legend" if your 50 something old friend says that about you, there is no question about it. May he rest in peace.

[@UniqueMonique513]

((R.I.P)) I saw the story bout the gentleman this happened to days ago... I Reside in Daytona Beach near the beach & haven't been in the water in years... I guess being paranoid does pay off because it can HAPPEN to anybody

[@thatgirlwhousedtohavereall5549]

When you consider everything that is washed into the waterways via storm drains, it makes better sense to have your own pool if you need to swim. I looked it up a few minutes ago, and the list of contaminates is awful. Eww! To think I’ve splashed around in that … I’m glad I survived!

[@AQlady10]

That's why people have swimming pool's i never go into the water it's dangerous

[@Elias-ub8wk]

Is this the same person cause I seen the video too and he choose not to amputate his legs the doctors said it was life or death and he choose to keep his leg I thought they said he was expected to make a good recovery

[@dandaddavi]

I think this planet is completely fed up with humans now.

[@truenaturestormers2525]

A reset would be great for Planet Earth. It is hard to look forward to anything. All of the sick ass creepy humans with no love and selfish ways. Not much is good any more. For without love we are nothing.

[@Angel-tw3ko]

@@truenaturestormers2525 this world will not be reset, it will be destroyed by fire.

[@juanv7822]

Yes indeed.

[@juanv7822]

We are drowning in 💩.

[@truenaturestormers2525]

@@Angel-tw3ko Yes that is what god will do this time not with water. Ithink it will be a planet or asteroid this time as for me i think we are not to far away from the end.

[@cadelea8354]

WHY ARE THEY STILL LETTING PEOPLE INTO THE WATER???!!!

[@Lc-sh7uk]

Am guessing Cuz they need enough people to die ..I would sue the county and to stay out of the water with open wounds.. how about open pores? Can you get it that way? Officials don’t care about people’s safety.. it’s all about money

[@Crazy-Horse-Tx.]

Revenue. The county officials know it will stop people from visiting. Visitors bring in money.

[@rgs6236]

I was thinking that exact same thing 🤔

[@pfil.odendron2036]

No one can or will stop me from enjoying the beach on a hot texan summer. Stop taking our freedoms away.

[@cadelea8354]

@@pfil.odendron2036 No one is taking away your freedom from enjoying the Texas heat. If you want to swim in a cesspool and die, then be my guest. All I'm saying is that the water is a polluted sewer and people are still swimming in it. Obviously the City officials don't give a damn about you or anyone else.

[@at0micbunnygirl]

All that, and you don't even warn us of signs or symptoms to watch for, and what it looks like at the start, muchless if it could be treated if caught early and aggressively. For something you CHOSE to report on, you failed miserably.

[@chynahart2219]

Yeah this is messed up but they did have signs stating the water isn't safe which is why no lawsuit has been found

[@loRdpharaoh]

@@chynahart2219 so the only people left to blame is the parents, if there are signs and you go in there you just plain stupid.

[@robertmedina3982]

Stay away from pockets of warm waters especially when it hot. It can swim up the nostrils!

[@_TruthNationTv]

Everybody knows don’t swim from Texas to Miami. The gulf has turned into a septic tank.

[@hennagal7360]

Wow - thats really sad 😣 time to build sewage treatment on land - i just assumed this about usa in 2021

[@NaughtyAutie]

Thank BP for that oil spill....

[@rogerjohnson2490]

Also, if it gets in your mouth and eyes...anywhere there's an open to travel (not just a cut)

[@Brancaalice]

The mouth has strong defence system, also the eyes. Otherwise we living creature was dammed.

[@dannyisbell1448]

There is to much sewer being released in to our creeks bayous and rivers.EPA is not doing there job as usual .this is what happens when government is the head of these important institutions.

[@timtheenchanter6896]

EPA is doing they're job alright, taking kickbacks from these corporations to look the other way

[@mickmamahawkmickmamahawk5829]

Trump dismantled the EPA. We do not have an EPA anymore thanks to Trump. And these bacterias do not come from sewage. They exist in the sand and water. Under very warm conditions they become active. Florida, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia and W. Virginia all have had flesh eating bacteria in 2021. Global warming will increase cases. The waters are too hot!!

[@daddydo17]

It is up to the state to follow the EPA guidelines and to enforce regulations that protect the people. Trump gutted the EPA, and you probably voted for him because you are too lazy to learn anything about who you are voting for. It is Texas republican officials that don't do anything for you or me and that only look out for the wealthy donors that own the factories that pollute.

[@bethg.5611]

Have you seen the video of China dumping their sewage into the oceans? It can be seen from space.

[@OCtheG]

@@timtheenchanter6896 They’re too busy harassing people who enjoy automobiles to actually attack the real polluters, you’re right too much money diverting their attention

[@Stephanie-lg1cm]

This is what we do to our sea, our world………………..plague, fires, floods is what the world does to us. Thank god I’m closer to death than birth; the world’s gone to hell in a handcart!

[@selsam7064]

And China is poop dumping in the waters near the Philippines. We are destroying our planet.

[@2wheelsr2wheels39]

@@selsam7064 they're doing this on purpose. They are at war with the world but haven't declared it.

[@markjones354]

And people still break their necks to get to the beach every weekend knowing about this and other things u can get out of these nasty waters

[@bestpartsonly2367]

It’s really just warmer climates that have this, northern beaches are okay

[@arealhauntedhouse4171]

Unbelievable insanity!🤦🏻 I Hear YoU!👍🏼

[@SOLDOZER]

The Messycans love to swim in the doody water.

[@jManraM]

@@SOLDOZER tf u mean?

[@SOLDOZER]

@@jManraM The Messycans love the doody water.

[@eyotachenoa3132]

20 or so yrs ago, my brother crashed his bike into a sign post on a Saturday. Injured his knee badly. He died Thursday from this flesh eating disease.

[@thatgirlwhousedtohavereall5549]

Oh dear how awful! Did he go swimming afterwards or it just happened because of the wound? Sorry for your loss, 20 years ago but still 🙏

[@eyotachenoa3132]

@@thatgirlwhousedtohavereall5549 , just the accident which was inland CA. We still miss him.

[@singmysong1167]

So sorry for your loss. I read a documented story of the same thing happening to a boy who skinned his knee from a bike accident and later died because of MRSA. Have the book somewhere around here.

[@thegalapagos57]

Genetically modified microbes have been used to eat oil from past spills in the gulf, what if those microbes are the same ones eating flesh now?

[@anonnnymousthegreat]

Or it could be Naegleria fowleri.

[@amandasimmons147]

California Los Angeles area remained closed on Tuesday after 17 million gallons of sewage leaked into the Pacific Ocean. (Flesh eating bacteria comes from human feces.) kzbin.info/www/bejne/amPCk5-pqNN-p9E

[@_TruthNationTv]

They know before they pump anything into the ocean the risk. They DO NOT CARE!!

[@jeromegarcia5396]

Huh...😳😳😳 Got a point...

[@fearlessarchangel]

Nah, nature is just nature. There are thousands of things created to keep organisms constantly dying even when they are relatively healthy. Bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi are relentless. That's why hygiene is so important.

[@arealhauntedhouse4171]

If this is happening to Human Beings, going in the Water.🌊 What's going on with what lives in the WATER🐠🐟🐬🐳🐙🐡❓

[@asdfghjkl-oo7lv]

Great question!!!

[@trippylong8580]

They are also removing too many coral reefs,snails,shrimp,clams, oysters 🤷 everything that keeps the water clean...this planet is really messed up, something gotta give🌠🔥

[@Jaxpg19]

My condolences to the family for their loss. Revelation 21: 3, 4

[@jacqueshanmer]

Even still, they won't do anything to clean up that shite water in galveston

[@watchgoose]

how would you DO that?

[@xtscarfacem8255]

For real how would they do that? We will have a fresh water problem soon, they won't even listen to that problem... do you think they care about people getting into water?

[@26longlongtime]

Chlorinate the ocean? lol

[@selsam7064]

@@26longlongtime 😂😂

[@marco3dartist]

you can't clean nature out of nature

[@LiftingwithGrandpaCharlie]

I thought it was only in fresh water. In salt water, the ocean ? I was either in it, or on it, most of my younger life and never heard of this back then. True Horror !

[@Brancaalice]

It only in sweet water, it cant survive in salt water.

[@LiftingwithGrandpaCharlie]

@@Brancaalice Thanks !

[@suzanrobinson4719]

Prayers and thoughts of comfort to all affected.😥💖🙏🏾

[@lynettedundon1410]

Why don't they close the beach?so sad. RIP Dan.

[@nerobaal6655]

😭

[@darkdistiller]

Like everything else, 💰💰💰💰

[@THATBOISHAD]

@@darkdistiller You hit it right on the money!

[@lyftjennings1890]

He seemed fine just yesturday wow. It's instant death.

[@nikkib5753]

That was another man. This is crazy. 2nd reported case. They need to close the beach.

[@GardeninGrace]

@@nikkib5753 They just released a report on the amount of fecal matter released in the gulf, that combined with the temperatures rising it’s a breeding ground for bacteria.

[@pfil.odendron2036]

He had underlying conditions. He didnt die from the infection. This is fake hoax news.

[@7Bandit7]

@@nikkib5753 - same guy. Same leg.

[@nikkib5753]

@@pfil.odendron2036 you sound ridiculous.

[@komerwest3748]

Why is it we never heard of this problem years ago. What caused this to grow here? Is it caused by plants pumping into the water?

[@NaughtyAutie]

The BP oil spill!!!

[@chaunie77]

Was this from the beaches that had they high fecal levels?

[@mikewilson9236]

I stopped going to beaches 15 years ago

[@angelabroman18]

CLOSE THE BEACH-DUH~!

[@loRdpharaoh]

more like be a responsible parent and don't take your kids to the poopoo lake,

[@angelabroman18]

@@loRdpharaoh DUH, AND CLOSE THE BEACH~!

[@lisalane7648]

So sad, Prayers RIP. ❤️🦋🙏✌️🙏

[@melanieblackwelder6521]

Prayers for his family 🙏💙

[@xyriusd832]

I wish more is done to preserve our planet. It’s so unfortunate that the government seems to turn a blind eye to it.

[@gew2510]

Moving to Texas and now I know I won't be at the beach unless it's on the west coast

[@robertmcdonald3779]

From a fellow Texan Only go and swim at South Padre, but it is a drive to get there.

[@heidiperet7087]

That water looks disgusting!!😳

[@claudiasimpson4386]

The Officials aren't telling the public about the human waste (Sewage ) that being discharged along the Beaches !!!.

[@nerobaal6655]

🤫

[@claudiasimpson4386]

@@nerobaal6655 🗣 it's 💩 🌊

[@nerobaal6655]

@@claudiasimpson4386 It's cleared up since the spill 😏

[@claudiasimpson4386]

@@nerobaal6655 , Good to hear ,if that's true. Hope the Dolphins and whales aren't becoming sick or Dying from the Bacteria and Sewage run off !!!.

[@nerobaal6655]

@@claudiasimpson4386 They'll be okay 🤗

[@cattigereyes1]

As the earth warms and waste products are dumped into the sea. Swim at your own risk.

[@angelisa368]

Why is that beach still open??!

[@carlagarrett3244]

so scary 😧 prayers to his family

[@trina2021]

I went to santa monica found a dirty diaper floating around on the beach. I left when I saw it i picked it up with a stick n threw it away. I saw a bunch of trash it was sad.

[@geminination7193]

RIP,stay out the water,everything is a danger now a days

[@BennilocoLoves]

Just the way the repigs want it.. 2022 VOTE STRIAGHT BLUE!!!

[@shavonesuthal4244]

This is the first time I hear salt water with bacteria. I usually go to the beach with wounds so the salt water could heal it. This is strange!

[@tysonminlo4938]

i believe they just had a report about high amounts of waste in the ocean water. this is sad. Legend RIP.

[@redwoodtrail]

Yes I believe I seen a story of beaches closed to high fecal matter in the waters. Ever see the Ganges river in India? It’s considered a holy River however it’s filled with feces, plastic, dead bodies, chemical wastes, etc. the pictures are horrifying.

[@loRdpharaoh]

exactly, an entire news cast was out there telling resident, stupid people play stupid games.

[@tysonminlo4938]

@@redwoodtrail i remember hearing about the river, still sounds unreal.

[@brucewestoby]

Do not go in the water , beaches, ponds , rivers where the water is warm 80 degrees on up if you have any unhealed sores on your feet, legs, or fresh cuts or scrapes... covered or uncovered.! Any beach, all beaches.

[@stanlee6829]

I checked and “that dude was a legend” is 5 words…

[@doneown503]

Pretty sad , our beaches in US will never be what they used to , ,

[@petuniafuzz9083]

This is sad.

[@tammysmith6690]

Prayers for his family

[@jimtessin4130]

So very very sad

[@mssinocent]

I live in Houston, which is about a 2 hour drive from Galveston/Crystal Beach and this is something that happens just about EVERY summer...you'd think by now that people would KNOW to stay OUT of that filthy water down there...

[@SOLDOZER]

The Messycans love it.

[@funkadelphiarecords]

Glenn Campbell predicted this over 50 years ago: "Galveston, oh Galveston. I am so afraid of flesh eating bacteria..."

[@TheDungShow69]

Thats a great tune.. lol

[@juniorgee7297]

NOW WE CAN'T EVEN GO INTO THE WATER.

[@freeagent2207]

@1:14 "with this *new* "type" of infection" Just tell the truth🤦

[@orlandovega6958]

Caught that 🥴

[@Angela-zf8sn]

Yes! He almost said it!

[@Dxp09]

Well it did exist years ago it infected someone in Galveston about 3-2 years ago,but he did almost say new type of infection 🤔

[@freeagent2207]

@@Dxp09 i don't believe that. Lets search for the records of it

[@gloriahanes5338]

Close Crystal Beach the loss of one life is reason enough to place a warning sign and/or close the beach to the public.

[@fromtheblues]

They didn't CLOSE the beach? Unfucking real.

[@SOLDOZER]

Close the beach? It would never be open...

[@DARTHDANSAN]

I’ll be staying away from Galveston

[@SS3-Rick-Man-X]

More reason to not go in the water at the beach. I seen videos about sharks waiting close by the shallow part of the water to take people in and another video of poop being all over the water at another beach as well. Problem is, people are seeing all of these things going on in the water and are like, hmm... I think I'll take a dip. Wonder what's next when it comes to these beaches?

[@CallPaula4RealEstate]

Shut the beach down duh

[@dopegirldopegirlyeahthatsm5582]

This the 2nd video I’ve watched about flesh eating bacteria 🦠 from this beach 🤦‍♀️

[@tonjasims6109]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 up for his family! I

[@Al-ht5pi]

Hood it’s in the ocean/ lake/ river? I’m sorry never been to Texas. That’s foul. What is they going to do about this?

[@whospilledmybeans]

It says its from open wounds in water or eating shellfish. 1 in three death rate

[@darensmith5270]

Texas or Florida why am I never surprised??????

[@Dat550go]

🤔🤔🤔 is that bacteria located at the beach that you are doing this report??

[@ccorn8139]

This is absolutely not normal and someone is poisoning the water.

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady2]

How sad. I had hoped he would survive. 🥺💔

[@jimkelman3509]

why has the water not been vaccinated ?????

[@tereasacarty8000]

Was my grandmas favorite beach to visit in the 80s

[@hisprincesswarrior6246]

The beach should be shut down period.

[@aristotlekumpis7095]

Geez. They say even with creeps and rivers, plug your nose. Don’t let water get in your nose or mouth. That’s how the his bacteria enters your body, besides having an open wound.

[@maremacd]

Terrifying.

[@LOLONO666]

apparently we don't need aliens to eradicate us

[@nerobaal6655]

👽✌️

[@gatdemun]

Not getting in the water

[@blipco5]

"The dude was a legend." Five words actually.

[@armandobecerra7098]

Sad to see this happen to people, the fact that I have been going to this beach for almost 4 years and nothing has happened to me, one of my favorite beaches, probably not anymore

[@Sharon3rd]

If you have Hemochromatosis or Iron Overload, stay off the beach and please don’t eat shellfish!!

[@Janotes]

What a shame, and I always thought this country had taken great strides against water pollution. Here on the East coast it's the same problems. After heavy rains local sewage treatment plants cant handle the Extra influx of water and it results In untreated discharges into local water ways. Uncontrolled development along the coasts doesn't help either.

[@bobvila6437]

This always happens. I ask myself why hasn't anyone done something to prepare sewage treatment plants for storms with some kind of overflow recervoirs and prevent the overflow that results in raw sewage ending up in the ocean and washing up onto the beaches. Also the extra influx of storm water could probably be diverted into clean reservoirs and filtered. Any use would be better than this tragedy. Here in California, we recently had such a spill and a few beaches were closed right in the middle of summer.

[@surx3trece71westsiksidr4]

Wait there's a 2nd person??

[@carolcarol62]

Necrotizing fasciitis is HORRID we had a patient on our med surge floor and poor soul - my god the smell of the wound was worse than death

[@DIVISIONINCISION]

Did tbey survive?

[@carolcarol62]

@@DIVISIONINCISION yes after 6 months of intensive antibiotics- he weighed a ton but left a thin man. His wound was elbow deep and we had to pack it- weirdly it was on his butt check and just ate away- the doctors said onions from the cafeteria would help absorb smell but ummmm no. No nurse was asked to do a 12 hour shift with him more than once a week. It was that bad. We are human 😬 true story friendly hills hospital Whittier ca. Torn down now tho

[@carolcarol62]

@@DIVISIONINCISION as I recall he required a cane after -

[@dmitrikguajardo6006]

I went to mexico beach Florida and a month or so later my kidneys shut down. I never thought of the beach

[@johna3607]

Sewage in the water.?? Wasn't there a release up the coast? Just a thought.

[@selsam7064]

Yes. Just had a debate about this topic. I read that 55 of 61 beaches in Texas are contaminated with fecal matter. Environment Texas' report calls for infrastructure upgrades to prevent sewage overflows and prevent runoff pollution. People are more prone to get some sort of infection if they go into those waters.

[@gerardov.9716]

Stop dumping sewage in the ocean and swimming in it.

[@keving1774]

His leg was looking better, the blisters were gone, he was receiving skin grafts, he said he was glad it didn't happen to his family. He thought he was clear...

[@edwardwoods5977]

Not the same guy

[@jowbloe4700]

Different guy. They even talk about that guy a little in this story. Maybe where your mix up comes from.

[@shabbykat273]

Galveston area has the filthiest ocean water in Texas, aside from the Houston docks.

[@lt4324]

this was also frequent during the late 80's or early 90's if I remember the dates correctly. BUT was not due to water or the beach. Can't remember the cause back then.

[@trina2021]

I thought they were saying the water out there in Texas is tested as poop water. Yeah u can't be in water if u have a open sore or cut. Im scared of ocean.

[@chynahart2219]

You live all those years to only die of a flesh eating disease caught at the beach God bless his family with understanding

[@fishydubsfishing6516]

You can’t pay me to swim in Florida’s water

[@satchemo24]

Note to self: stay the hell off Crystal Beach!!!

[@charlesritter6640]

Do you even need an open wound? Couldn't you get it through your nose, mouth, eyes, etc etc also?

[@chmellen]

I remember a case where women were buryring baby diapers in the sand.

[@mmaranta785]

Good fertilizer

[@robertkustos2931]

WARNING : 'Flesh eating bacteria on beach'. Reporter Tiffany Justice stands on beach.

[@laughoutloudtv2104]

Very sad!

[@chriscaper1510]

What don’t kill you makes you stronger

[@HeavenlyOracle1]

so if 2 people within 1 beach season get flesh eating bacteria and 1 nearly dies and nearly had his leg amputated and the other did have leg amputated and then died but they are not closing down this beach and studying what is in the water and why?If 2 people were attacked by a shark they would close the beach!!!!!!!! this is crazy!

[@gene7arttech]

GOD ALMIGHTY judgement is upon the earth, along with The Wrath of The Lamb. You will have no peace.

[@Veetribe.]

We were just visiting in that area and the ocean water smells like sewage It was sickening

[@bebopc95]

Yo this bacteria is no joke im scared now

[@kristyolsen6094]

Crystal Beach TEXAS, NOT FLORIDA, at the moment.