警惕! 美國55歲女子吃生蠔後感染'食肉菌'身亡

A 55-year-old woman died in October after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria on a trip to visit friends and family in Louisiana.

一名55歲的女子在前往路易斯安那州看望親友後，因感染“食肉菌”在去年10月份不幸身亡。

Jeanette LeBlanc got sick after going crabbing and then eating raw oysters that she and a friend picked up from a market in Westwego.

這位名叫珍妮特·勒布朗的女子，當時和朋友一起去捕蟹，隨後，兩人還食用了在韋斯特維戈的一個市場挑選的生蠔，後來就感到身體不適。

Her friend Karen Bowers told KLFY that LeBlanc became sick after the two of them ate the raw oysters.

她的朋友凱倫·鮑爾斯告訴KLFY頻道，兩人吃過生蠔後，勒布朗就生病了。

At first, she says it looked like her friend was having an allergic reaction. But LeBlanc's condition worsened in the next 48 hours and she was hospitalized.

她表示，最初，勒布朗的症狀看上去像是過敏。但在隨後的48小時內她的情況便不斷惡化，最後不得不入院治療。

Doctors diagnosed LeBlanc with vibriosis.

根據醫生的診斷，她患上了弧菌病。

'It's a flesh-eating bacteria. She had severe wounds on her legs from that bacteria,' LeBlanc's partner Vicki Bergquist said.

勒布朗的伴侶維基·伯奎斯特稱：“這是一種食肉菌，她的腿上當時有很多處傷口，都是感染了這種病菌所引發的。”

According to the CDC, people can contract vibriosis from brackish water or eating raw oysters. LeBlanc was exposed to both of those things on the day she got sick.

根據美國疾病控制與預防中心介紹，人類可通過接觸鹹水河流以及食用生蠔患上弧菌病。而在勒布朗患病的當天，她曾先後做過上述兩件事。

Symptoms include diarrhea, nausea, fever and chills. Severe cases like LeBlanc's can result in death.

患上弧菌病之後的症狀，包括腹瀉、噁心、發燒以及畏寒等。情況嚴重者，就如勒布朗一樣，有可能因此喪命。

Bergquist and Bowers are now working together to help raise awareness of flesh-eating bacteria.

伯奎斯特和鮑爾斯現在正在共同努力，幫助人們提高對食肉細菌的認識。

'If they really knew what could happen to them and they could literally die within 48, 36 hours of eating raw oysters, is it really worth it?' Bowers said.

鮑爾斯說：“如果人們真的知道在吃生蠔後36到48個小時內有可能發生什麼，那他們或許就會問問自己，這麼做究竟值不值。”

'If we had known that the risk was so high, I think she would've stopped eating oysters,' Bergquist added.

伯奎斯特補充說道：“如果我們知道這麼做居然會有如此高的風險，那我想她當時一定不會吃那些生蠔了。”