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Well, this is unpleasant: A Nacogdoches man remains in critical condition after being infected with a flesh-eating bacteria during a swim off the Galveston County coast. The man, 58-year-old Steve Gilpatrick, is diabetic and had an ulcer on his leg when he went swimming during a fishing trip at Crystal Beach on July 8. Three days later, his leg became infected and he began running a high fever; it turns out he had been infected by Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that can cause vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain in healthy people and far more severe problems — septic shock and blistering skin — in people with health problems. According to the CDC, people whose bloodstreams are infected by Vibrio vulnificus, like Gilpatrick, have a 50 percent mortality rate from the infection. more ›