In the flesh water skin#

In the flesh water skin#

The infections typically cause a fever and cause the skin to become, red, swollen and painful at the site of infection.

Bacteria can multiply under the skin and cause a life-threatening illness commonly known as flesh-eating disease, or necrotizing fasciitis, which can appear suddenly and spread quickly. vulnificus can enter through broken skin such as cuts, burns or wounds. Systemic infections are treatable with antibiotics, but it is important that treatment start quickly, as the death rate can be over 50%.įor other people, V. Because it spreads so quickly, it can overwhelm the body before the immune system has a chance to stop the infection. It can also lead to a life-threatening infection, as bacteria can move from the intestines into the bloodstream and cause an infection throughout the body. When someone eats a raw or undercooked oyster, the bacteria can multiply in the gastrointestinal tract and cause nausea and abdominal pain. Oysters eat by filtering out small particles in the water, including bacteria, so they can contain much higher concentrations of Vibrio than the ocean itself. The bacteria must find a way to get into your body to multiply and cause damage.įor some people, this involves eating food contaminated by the bacteria – typically raw oysters. Most cases tend to be males over 40 years of age and nearly all of them have some sort of underlying chronic health condition, such as liver or kidney disease, alcoholism or diabetes.Įven for high-risk people, simply swimming alongside the bacteria is not enough to make you sick. To put this in some perspective, over 32,000 people died that year in motor vehicle crashes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 205 infections occur each year, of which 124 were reported in 2014, including 21 deaths. Morphx1982/Wikipedia, CC BY-SAĮven so, V. The center is clearly getting darker red (purple). The very first symptom of a flesh eating infection. The first large outbreak I worked on in Las Vegas was caused by contaminated oysters, and it made me realize just how easily food from the ocean can show up in the desert and make people sick if it isn’t harvested, handled and prepared properly. I am an infectious disease epidemiologist interested in tracking disease, investigating outbreaks and food safety. This could change, however, as summer weather starts earlier and lasts longer. Most cases of infection occur between May and October, when coastal waters are warmest. We have seen outbreaks of disease from similar types of Vibrio related to rising ocean temperatures as far north as Alaska. As ocean temperatures rise, it will spread with those warming waters to new ocean habitats where colder waters previously kept it in check. vulnificus is most commonly found in the warm waters of the states bordering the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico but can also be found along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. And as with human beachgoers, the warmer the water, the more of them there are. The so-called flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, don’t just like the beach they need it, and rely on seasalt for survival. Donations are appreciated.Like humans, many bacteria like to spend time at the beach. SPONSORS: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Department of Art + Art History and College of Arts + HumanitiesĬlosed Saturdays Martin Luther King, Jr. Sometimes elegant, sometimes haunting, the photographs in Flesh/Water hover between the worlds of anxiety and serenity, forming a portrait of water that functions as an evolving question about the past, present, and future relationship humans have both with each other and the natural world.

And yet, despite our geographic separations, water-the world’s most vital resource-binds us together as one. Some of these artists reside by the sea some on islands, near oceans, lakes, rivers, or ponds. This exhibition is a visual exploration of water as it relates to flesh, as an infinite metaphor for that which is transformative, strong, and mystifying.įlesh/Water assembles diverse stories from artists based around the country as they interpret and express their own relationship to water. Works included are analog, digital, color, or black and white. This theme can be interpreted in several ways, and is open to each artist’s ways of awareness and understanding. Flesh/Water is a group exhibition of photographic-based work that brings together diverse stories of artists from around the country as they interpret and express their own relationships to water.