Man Loses Leg To Flesh-Eating Bacteria After Swimming In Florida

Abc7chicago.com Doctors are issuing a warning about swimming with open wounds after a man in Florida had to have his leg amputated because of a flesh-eating bacterial infection. Zach Mody only had a minor cut on his toe when he went swimming off a Fort Myers beach in the Gulf of Mexico about a month ago. Now, he's in a hospital bed and is missing one leg. "I would have never thought in a million years this would have happened to me," Mody told ABC affiliate WZVN-TV. His symptoms started shortly after his visit to the beach. "I noticed my foot was a little irritated and it just had a little red spot on it," Mody recalled. Twelve hours later, Mody said the pain became unbearable. He checked himself into Health Park Hospital. "By the time that I got from downstairs to the operating room, there were these big giant blood blisters on my foot," Mody said. Doctors diagnosed it as a flesh-eating bacteria that quickly spread up his leg. A doctor told him at that time that it was a surgical emergency...