In Texas, we have one more concern for tubing enthusiasts: standing water where dangerous infectious bacteria may reside.
When it rains here, it floods. Our rivers get fast and churn up all sorts of stuff that had been stagnating in standing water or little inlet pools. Necrotizing fasciitis, a.k.a. flesh eating bacterial infection, has affected several people over the years, including an entire family, who managed to pick it up while tubing along a popular river near where I live.
So, remember the old adage that running water is best and know whether or not the waters have been tested.
Also, this bacteria can be picked up anywhere, even on a table where an infected person has placed a hand. That happened to another victim here. Nasty stuff!
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In Texas, we have one more concern for tubing enthusiasts: standing water where dangerous infectious bacteria may reside.
When it rains here, it floods. Our rivers get fast and churn up all sorts of stuff that had been stagnating in standing water or little inlet pools. Necrotizing fasciitis, a.k.a. flesh eating bacterial infection, has affected several people over the years, including an entire family, who managed to pick it up while tubing along a popular river near where I live.
So, remember the old adage that running water is best and know whether or not the waters have been tested.
Also, this bacteria can be picked up anywhere, even on a table where an infected person has placed a hand. That happened to another victim here. Nasty stuff!
July 16, 2009 - 5:29pmThis Comment
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