Physician says “this may be a brand new illness” — Swimmer covered in oily substance diagnosed with “rare” bacteria similar to oil-eating microbes

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Tourists Poisoned By Swimming in the Gulf On Vacation During Oil Spill, 1 Dead, jerrycope1, March 8, 2011:

- Went swimming at Best Western in Fort Walton Beach, FL
- “Baby you’ve got all this orange stuff all over you”
- Little orange beads, tried to get it off but it just smeared in
- Like burnt orange sun tan oil
- Something worse than Jaws
- Children were out there too
- Spent 90 days in bed… like an induced sleep
- Every pore in body pouring out fluid
- “Like something out of a zombie film”
- Throwing up dark brown substance, the texture of grits
- Symptoms began one month after swimming in mid-July
- Lungs began to fill with cold fluid
- “This guy is going to die”
- At 15:25 — Doctor: This may be a brand new illness
- Diagnosed with chemical exposure
- At 17:25 — Toxicology report shows rare, negative bacteria in body similar to microbes that eat oil
- Still having symptoms, night sweats, sharp stabbing pain, stomach problems, lungs drowning in own acid

See also: Man covered in “orange slick stuff” while swimming near Destin is now “pissing blood, vomiting dark brown stuff”