Mom dies after catching flesh-eating bacteria on family vacation

An Indiana family’s vacation to Florida reportedly left a mom with a deadly flesh-eating bacteria.

Carol Martin, 50, died Saturday, nearly two months after returning from Clearwater, Fla., with an infection known as necrotizing fasciitis, news station WRTV reported.

Martin’s family said they believe the virus may have been from a hot tub at the local Days Inn hotel.

“My thing is nobody else [in the family] got it, the flesh-eating bacteria,” her husband, Richard, toldnews station WFLA. “No one else got it but she was the only one who got in the hot tub.”

It wasn’t until they were back in Indianapolis that the mom noticed a nickel-size sore on her buttocks, according to the news station.

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