just when you think your safe

9supratt4

9supratt4

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You just found out about that?!?! That bacteria is some bad stuff

I don't remember where, but I read about a guy that had gotten infected in his finger...after a few days he was in excruciating pain and in the hospital on IV antibiotics.
My gf had an infection from a coral scrape in the Caribbean....apparently this stuff in our tanks is even worse than wild coral scrapes!! That's what the doc told her...and she had to go through 2 courses of oral antibiotics and use topical antibiotic cream and it still took 3 months to clear up.
I hope never to get infected by Mycobacterium marinum!!!
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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google search reveals:
1. only 100-150 US cases per year
2. only 0.27 per 100,000 adults infected
3. does not spread well or thrive at temps above 90deg (read does not affect most humans even with exposure and usually limited mostly to external areas as the human body is regulated at 98.6ish degrees)
4. NO reported human deaths directly caused by it
5. it basically causes fish tuberculosis
 
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