12-06-2012, 01:29 PM
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Originally posted by james weatherford...That young man reported that his parents had come to visit Hawaii, and they had swam at Kapoho. His mother was dead within 48 hours from a flesh eating something that got into a small wound on her leg.....
The next morning I called the Dept of Health office in Hilo.
I told the receptionist who answered the phone that I wanted to get information about the woman who had died after swimming in Kapoho, to which she blurted, "How did you find out about that?" I asked to speak to her supervisor. After a long pause, a man came on the phone and I asked if the public had been made aware of the bacteria in the water, to which he responded, "There is bacteria in all water."
Case closed.
No to make light of the situation but my father got flesh eating bacteria in his yard in Honomu with no open wound. He had a compromised immune system, renal failure, and a bad heart and it took him 22 days to die.
There was that guy a few years who had been in a bar fight in Waikiki and got pushed into the Alawai with many open cuts from the fight, and died from the bacterial infection in a few days.
I am not going to say it is safe to swim in Kapoho. In actuality, it is probably not safe to swim anywhere anymore.