NC man touched raw shrimp after Hurricane Florence. It left him fighting for his life
Story Date: 11/5/2018

 

Source: Aaron Moody, NEWS & OBSERVER, 11/2/18


A North Carolina couple didn’t have to eat the fresh-caught shrimp they bought a few weeks after Hurricane Florence to find out something was wrong with them. After the husband touched the shrimp, he became infected by a bacteria that left him fighting for his life. Longtime and now-retired Wake County educators Eddie and Patti Clinton purchased 20 pounds of shrimp from a friend of a friend who harvested them near the New River on Oct. 5, Patti Clinton told The News & Observer in an interview.

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