Its victim might not even notice the pinprick of its bite, only feel an array of unpleasant symptoms later, from cramping and convulsions to sweating, tremors, vomiting, and loss of consciousness. The female is jet black, with a red or yellow hourglass shape on its underside. You also might start to feel dizzy, fatigued, or nauseated, or you could have diarrhea. Vibrio gets under your skin through cuts, scrapes, or even insect bites, then spreads quickly through the soft tissue of your body-a disease called necrotizing fasciitis, which causes painful red swelling followed by fever, ulcers, blisters, black spots under the skin, and oozing pus. Heading to the beach? Just hope you don’t encounter a particularly vicious bacterium called vibrio, which attacks swimmers in the ocean or brackish water. “Since it’s so rare, we don’t know why a few people get sick while millions who swim in natural bodies of water don’t.” Flesh-eating Bacteria The good news? Infections are rare: only 34 were reported in the United States between 20, the CDC reports. “It is extremely serious and almost always fatal,” Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen told KWTX in September.
Experts advise keeping your head dry when wading in a stream or lake where water temperatures are warm and water levels are low. (This amoeba can also strike when you use contaminated tap water to flush your sinuses, FYI.) It is present in freshwater throughout Texas, and there’s really no body of water that can be considered safer from it than others. Naegleria enters your body through the nose and shimmies into your skull, where it plays around in your brains, destroying the tissue. Just beware of the Naegleria fowleri, a nasty little single-celled organism lurking in warm water and nicknamed for its favorite pastime-literally eating human brains. Brain-eating Amoebasįor sweet relief from the interminable hellscape that is the Texas summer, plunk your hot bod into the nearest swimming hole. Instead, seek distraction via our completely unscientific and by no means definitive list of the most dangerous creatures in Texas that could, by some fluke, kill you first. Forget heart disease and cancer and all the other tragic or banal ways most of us will exit this world of the living.
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