Here's some more of the bacteria discussion.... "Having received a some back channel responses as well as a few list comments to my post last night, let me clarify a couple of points.
First a typo--when I wrote I was thinking "within sixteen hours" (for the blood-borne development) but I actually wrote down "within six hours" so this needs to be corrected. (The net throwing incident was on a Saturday morning at 8:00 A.M. and the next day (Sunday) at noon (sixteen hours later) is when I checked into the urgent care clinic with the symptoms which included coronary fluxuations, drastic white blood cell counts, high fever and the disabled foot joint.) My understanding is that when this bacteria becomes blood-borne it often attacks heart valve tissue, and also typically it will take up residence in an extremity--either a hand or a foot--so it matters not where the skin lesion (point of entry) is located on the body. Just thought I should clarify these points, for the sake of accuracy. Take my word for it, this thing is a bad bug. What I have learned is that some of the commercial crabbers in our area carry onboard a 5 gallon bucket (with lid) in which they keep a mix of one gallon of Clorox and one gallon of water, so that whenever they get a cut or puncture on their hands while doing their work, they can just stick their hands into the solution immediately to kill off the bacteria." Tod _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
