Who is at risk for Vibrio , the flesh-eating bacteria?

Florida health officials last week reported a third death this year due to Vibrio vulnificus — a bacterium that can be flesh-eating when it infects people through an open wound exposed to seawater or brackish water. Earlier this month, the Louisiana Department of Health identified five deaths among nine cases of V. vulnificus — all traced to open wounds exposed to seawater. The patients who died