Laura Barajas, 40, bought the fish at a local market in San Jose.
A California woman had all four of her limbs amputated after she ate some tilapia that was contaminated with a deadly bacteria, her friends say.
Laura Barajas, a 40-year-old mother, underwent the life-saving surgery on Thursday after a months-long stay in the hospital. “It’s just been really heavy on all of us. It’s terrible. This could’ve happened to any of us,” Barajas’ friend Anna MessinaMessina said Barajas became sick days after eating the fish that she had purchased at a local market in San Jose and made for herself at home.Barajas had all four limbs removed in a life-saving surgery this week.“They put her into a medically induced coma. Her fingers were black, her feet were black her bottom lip was black.
“The ways you can get infected with this bacteria are, one, you can eat something that’s contaminated with it [and] the other way is by having a cut or tattoo exposed to water in which this bug lives,” UCSF Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Natasha Spottiswoode told KRON.KRON 4There are roughly150-200 cases of Vibro Vulnificus reported each year, according to the CDC. About one in five of those infected die.to assist with the Barajas’ medical costs and her adjustment to her new life.
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