CDC says 5 dead from dirty water after Katrina
Posted on: Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 12:27 CDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many as five people have died from bacterial infections caused by the dirty water that Hurricane Katrina drove ashore last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
The patients appear to have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, a water-borne pathogen that is related to the bacteria that cause cholera and which is common in water off the Gulf of Mexico.
"There was one in Texas and I think three or four in Mississippi that were confirmed by state and local health officials and reported to CDC," CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said.
Source: REUTERS
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