SHOCKING! Woman loses all 4 limbs after eating undercooked fish
40-Year-old California resident Laura Barajas got a bacterial infection after eating undercooked tilapia fish
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Barajas became sick days after eating the fish that she had purchased at a local market and made for herself at home
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She was on a respirator. Doctors put her into a medically induced coma
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Her fingers, her feet, her bottom lip were all black. She had complete sepsis and her kidneys were failing
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After a month-long stay at hospital, surgery saved her life, but all her limbs had to be amputated
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Barajas was infected by Vibrio vulnificus -- a lethal bacterial infection
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As per CDC, about 150-200 cases of the infections are reported each year and about one in five people with the infection die -- sometimes within one to two days of becoming ill
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The ways you can get infected with this bacteria, firstly if you eat something that’s contaminated with it
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Secondly, by having a cut or tattoo exposed to water in which this bug lives