A devastated widow has shared how she lost her husband to flesh-eating bacteria after he paddled in calf-deep water at Virginia beach.
Joyce D'Arcy and her husband, Derek, took a trip to the classic vacation spot in August.
They waded in the water and did not even go up to their knees.
But that was all it took for a bacteria called vibrio vulnificus to make it into a small, open cut on Derek's leg.
'Virginia Beach was our absolute favorite place to go,' D'Arcy told WTSP. 'So its just so sad that the best place that we had is where he got sick.'
