Health Risks Increasing For Flesh-Eating Bacteria

ANNAPOLIS (WJZ) — Al Geisler was catching Rockfish off Sandy Point State Park last July when “this one fish poked me in the side of the calf. It just felt like a little bee sting.”
Spines at the tips of Rockfish fins aren’t toxic, but the one that poked Geisler carried a microscopic bacteria called Vibrio. A few hours later, Geisler explains, “it was like someone flipping a light switch. I got deathly sick that quick.”
He spent the next five weeks in Shock Tra