๐ Learn how Vibrio vulnificus moves from warm coastal waters and raw seafood into rare but potentially life-threatening infections.
Vibrio vulnificus is a naturally occurring marine bacterium that can cause gastrointestinal illness, rapidly progressive wound infections, and bloodstream infection. Severe disease is uncommon but disproportionately affects people with liver disease and other conditions that impair host defenses; prompt recognition and treatment are therefore central to prevention of death and limb loss.