Woman loses her arms and legs, after eating eating bad tilapia

Woman loses arms and legs after eating bad tilapia

In San Jose, California, a woman has lost everything except for her life. Just her being alive is a blessing, because she has gone through the nightmare scenario. The woman was in the hospital for two months, after having a rare encounter with some dangerous bacteria. As a result, this woman is now a quadruple amputee.

For 40-year-old, Laura Barajas, it didn’t begin that way. Two months ago, Barajas was living the normal life of a wife and a mother. Back in July, she simply went to the grocery store to pick up a few things to eat. Among them was tilapia, which she would go on to prepare and eat for a dinner that she had, alone, that night.

After buying tilapia and eating it for dinner, Laura Barajas fell gravely ill. As a result, she was hospitalized, and she remained in the hospital for two months. The CDC has issued a warning about a bacterial infection that impacts people who eat undercooked fish, or exposing an open wound to coastal water. Barajas contracted the infection from the tilapia she ate for dinner.

As a result, the woman wound up hospitalized, and nearly lost her life. Not only was she on the ventilator, but also, she was going through sepsis, and her kidneys were shutting down. Her arms and legs, along with her bottom lip turned black. This led to the doctors having to remove both of her arms and both of her legs.

Source: KRON4

Woman loses arms and legs after eating bad tilapia