Diseases and Illnesses

A Maryland woman’s social media post went viral this week after she shared photos of her son’s bacterial skin infection, which she said appeared after he swam on the bayside of Ocean City.

Brittany Carey posted photos June 29 of raw wounds that she said began as spots on her son’s body. Carey said in the post that doctors initially misdiagnosed the condition before determining it was caused by the Vibrio bacteria.

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