San Diego Man Dies from Flesh-Eating Bacteria NBC 7 San Diego
All of the new ponds and standing water that have popped up across San Diego after recent heavy rain are hard to miss.
Doctors are advising locals to be careful around these waters if they have a cut even as small as a bug bite because of bacteria that could be floating in the water.
Jeff Bova chased his dog into a pond rain created three weeks ago and picked up a flesh-eating bacteria called necrotizing fasciitis.
Bova s mom, Susan McIntyre, said the infection started as a small red spot on his arm, became swollen and then turned into something much worse.
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Oh, it was just, it was nasty,” McIntyre said.
Bova didn t like going to the doctor and tried to heal himself, she said. By the time he couldn t handle the pain anymore and went to the hospital, it was too late. He died two days later.
It’s hard and everything just happened so fast,” McIntyre said.
There’s a lesson here somewhere.