A 55-year-old woman died in October after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria on a trip to visit friends and family in Louisiana.

一名55岁的女子在前往路易斯安那州看望亲友后，因感染“食肉菌”在去年10月份不幸身亡。

Jeanette LeBlanc got sick after going crabbing¹ and then eating raw oysters² that she and a friend picked up from a market in Westwego.

这位名叫珍妮特·勒布朗的女子，当时和朋友一起去捕蟹，随后，两人还食用了在韦斯特维戈的一个市场挑选的生蚝，后来就感到身体不适。

Her friend Karen Bowers³ told KLFY that LeBlanc became sick after the two of them ate the raw oysters.

她的朋友凯伦·鲍尔斯告诉KLFY频道，两人吃过生蚝后，勒布朗就生病了。

At first, she says it looked like her friend was having an allergic⁴ reaction. But LeBlanc's condition worsened in the next 48 hours and she was hospitalized.

她表示，最初，勒布朗的症状看上去像是过敏。但在随后的48小时内她的情况便不断恶化，最后不得不入院治疗。

Doctors diagnosed LeBlanc with vibriosis.

根据医生的诊断，她患上了弧菌病。

'It's a flesh-eating bacteria. She had severe wounds on her legs from that bacteria,' LeBlanc's partner Vicki Bergquist said.

勒布朗的伴侣维基·伯奎斯特称：“这是一种食肉菌，她的腿上当时有很多处伤口，都是感染了这种病菌所引发的。”

According to the CDC, people can contract vibriosis from brackish⁵ water or eating raw oysters. LeBlanc was exposed to both of those things on the day she got sick.

根据美国疾病控制与预防中心介绍，人类可通过接触咸水河流以及食用生蚝患上弧菌病。而在勒布朗患病的当天，她曾先后做过上述两件事。

Symptoms include diarrhea, nausea⁶, fever and chills. Severe cases like LeBlanc's can result in death.

患上弧菌病之后的症状，包括腹泻、恶心、发烧以及畏寒等。情况严重者，就如勒布朗一样，有可能因此丧命。

Bergquist and Bowers are now working together to help raise awareness⁷ of flesh-eating bacteria.

伯奎斯特和鲍尔斯现在正在共同努力，帮助人们提高对食肉细菌的认识。

'If they really knew what could happen to them and they could literally⁸ die within 48, 36 hours of eating raw oysters, is it really worth it?' Bowers said.

鲍尔斯说：“如果人们真的知道在吃生蚝后36到48个小时内有可能发生什么，那他们或许就会问问自己，这么做究竟值不值。”

'If we had known that the risk was so high, I think she would've stopped eating oysters,' Bergquist added.

伯奎斯特补充说道：“如果我们知道这么做居然会有如此高的风险，那我想她当时一定不会吃那些生蚝了。”