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HESPERIA (KTLA) -- After suffering a seemingly minor cut, a teen from San Bernardino County has been battling an invasive bacterial infection for five years.
13-year-old Hannele Cox cut her hand as she pulled it out of a fish tank.
Teen Battles Skin Infection from Fish Tank Bacteria - No doctors have been able to get rid of the infection
Seeded on Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:56 AM EDT
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The bacteria is not contagious, but it causes skin wounds and, more alarmingly, eats away at deeper tissues and bones.
Damn !
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#1 - Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:58 AM EDTMycobacterium marinum is found commonly in both freshwater and saltwater, but human Mycobacterium marinum skin infections are rare.
Infections are usually picked up from aquariums or fish that have tuberculosis.
The bacteria can enter the body through cuts or scrapes
Another reason to stay out of the water.
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