Crab Kills Singaporean Man

[PhilHarries]

From Bangkok Post breaking news.

Crab prick kills Singapore old man

Singapore (dpa) - A man pricked by a live crab he was preparing for dinner died 48 hours later in a rare case of flesh-eating bacteria infection from seafood, a news report said Thursday.

Tan Boon Hock, 83, put a bandage on the small cut but began vomiting and suffering diarrhoea hours later. He was rushed to the Accident and Emergency Department of the National University Hospital.

"The doctors told us that he had been infected by a rare flesh- eating bacteria called Vibrio, and ... it was most likely that the crab spread the bacteria to him," The Straits Times quoted son Tan Aik Cheng as saying.

Doctors queried said that the Vibrio bacteria is potentially lethal but rarely passed to humans. Apart from crabs, it can be found on other seafood such as fish and prawns.

Cooking destroys the bacteria, making the seafood safe for consumption.

More here: http://www.bangkokpost.net/breaking_news/b...s.php?id=117592

[Crossy]

Nasty little chaps these http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Vibrio

[Jamie]

That's a strange bit of bad luck. I guess when it's your time.