Mum loses all four limbs after eating uncooked fish for dinner
17.09.2023 - 18:11
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A mum has lost all four of her limbs after eating uncooked fish.
Laura Barajas contracted a bacterial infection from undercooking Tilapia fish before her fingers and feet went black in late July. The 40-year-old had purchased the fish from a local market in San Jose and cooked it for dinner at home.
This week she was forced to undergo a life-saving amputation surgery after spending months in hospital battling the deadly infection. The mum, who has a six-year-old child, has now lost all four of her limbs.
Her friend says she "almost lost her life" from the incident.
Anna Messina told News 19: "It's just been really heavy on all of us. It's terrible. This could've happened to any of us. She almost lost her life. She was on a respirator."
She was placed into a medically induced coma after Laura contracted sepsis.
Anna added: "Her fingers were black, her feet were black her bottom lip was black. She had complete sepsis and her kidneys were failing."
Medics think the infection was likely caused by vibrio vulnificus - a bacterial infection the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recently warned about.. According to the CDC, around 150-200 cases of infections are reported each year, and around one in five people with the infection die. People who are immunocompromised are more at risk from the deadly bacteria.
CSF Infectious Disease expert Dr. Natasha Spottiswoode warned: "The ways you can get infected with this bacteria are one-you can eat something that's contaminated with it the other way is by having a cut or tattoo exposed to water in which this bug lives. People should take sensible precautions like if you have a cut avoid getting immersed in water until it's well healed.
"If you are someone immunocompromised,
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