Judge told flesh-eating disease caught in time
GALVESTON - Derry Dunn (R) considers himself lucky. If the Orange County justice of the peace had waited a little longer to begin treatment, he could have been among the 30 to 40 percent of victims who lose their limbs due to a bacterium that causes a flesh-eating disease.
Dunn, 69, the Precinct 2 judge, was admitted to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center around midnight Wednesday with a severe case of vibrio vulnificus on his right leg. He believes his leg became infected July 27, when he splashed into the surf at Crystal Beach to pluck his 8-year-old grandson out of the water.
"Everybody thinks we got to it soon enough to stop it," Dunn said.
Dunn is one of the more than 20 cases that doctors see every year on the Texas Gulf Coast, said Dr. A. Scott Lea, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch here. "In Galveston, we see it four or five times a year," Lea said. "We've seen two this year already."
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