{"id":809586,"date":"2026-08-11T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809586\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:32:08","slug":"louisiana-warns-of-rise-in-flesh-eating-bacteria-vibrio-vulnificus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809586\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana warns of rise in flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WXP2W26B7BHBHGUV7ABFVR5AFY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Louisiana urged beachgoers to take precautions against Vibrio vulnificus, as infections from the flesh-eating bacteria spike.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"V2DANUWXWJCZ7LGCA7O2ACRBVA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Nine people have been infected and five have died this year after coming into contact with warm seawater, where the bacteria naturally live, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ldh.la.gov\/news\/vibrio-update-aug26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state health officials<\/a>. During the last decade, the state averaged seven infections and one death per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louisiana urged beachgoers to take precautions against Vibrio vulnificus, as infections from the flesh-eating bacteria spike. Nine people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-809586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}