一名男子因感染食肉细菌而截肢

康涅狄格州一名男子因感染食肉细菌而截肢

A man had to have his leg amputated after contracting flesh-eating bacteria during a swim at a Connecticut beach.

一名男子在康涅狄格海滩游泳时感染食肉细菌，不得不截肢。

Bruce Kagan, 68, has undergone several surgeries since he went swimming at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, where he believes he contracted the infection, news station WVIT reported.

据WVIT新闻台报道，68岁的布鲁斯·卡根自从在麦迪逊的哈莫纳塞特海滩国家公园游泳后，经历了几次手术，他认为自己是在那里感染了这种病毒。

The New Britain resident said he had a small cut when he decided to take a dip in late June off the shore in Long Island Sound.

这位新来的英国居民说，他在6月底决定在长岛湾的海岸上游泳时，受到了小小的伤害。

“It’s all because of a little cut. It’s all it was, a little cut. Nothing more, nothing less,” Kagan told WVIT.

“就是因为有点小伤口。就这样，有一点割伤。”卡根告诉WVIT。

Kagan soon began to feel sick and was admitted June 30 to the Hospital of Central Connecticut. Doctors diagnosed him with necrotizing fasciitis, a potentially fatal infection that has popped up with alarming frequency in the US in recent weeks.

卡根很快就开始感到不舒服，6月30日被送入康涅狄格州中部医院。医生诊断他患有坏死性筋膜炎，这是一种潜在的致命感染，最近几周在美国以惊人的频率突然出现。

“My life changed within one moment saying ‘Yeah, it’s going to be okay,'” Kagan said. “Next moment, ‘We don’t know if you’re going to be okay.'”

卡根说:“我的生活在说‘是的，一切都会好起来的’的那一刻发生了改变。下一刻变成了，‘我们不知道你是否会好起来。’”

The flesh-eating disease can be caused by different strains of bacteria known to be found in saltwater environments, according to the CDC.

美国疾病控制与预防中心表示，这种食肉性疾病可能是由已知存在于盐水环境中的不同菌株引起的。

He underwent several surgeries in an attempt to save his leg, but doctors ultimately decided to amputate it above the knee to prevent the infection from spreading, the news station reported.

据新闻台报道，为了挽救他的腿，他做了几次手术，但为了防止感染扩散，医生最终决定在膝盖以上截肢。

“All I can say is that I am by far one of the luckiest men in the whole world, by far,” Kagan said. “I don’t know how I made it, but I did.”

卡根说：“我只能说，到目前为止，我是世界上最幸运的男人之一。”“我不知道我是怎么做到的，但我做到了。”