In warm temperatures, vibrions can multiply in the water of the Baltic Sea – and in rare cases cause serious infections. In Schleswig-Holstein, an elderly person went swimming despite previous illnesses and died shortly afterwards.
An elderly person died in a clinic in Ostholstein after being infected with Vibrionen. As the district administration announced on Thursday, the person had probably gone swimming despite an open wound and chronic previous illnesses. Then she died in the clinic on July 27th. According to the Ministry of Health in Kiel, this year it was the first case of infection reported in Schleswig-Holstein.
Vibrios can occur in the Baltic Sea at warmer temperatures
Like the Ostholstein district administration, the ministry reminded of precautionary measures: It can be assumed that the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus occurs in the Baltic Sea at warmer temperatures. Elderly people with an open wound, who have a weak immune system or who have had a weakened immune system due to previous illnesses, could be particularly at risk. People with open or poorly healing wounds should not expose them to contact with warm sea water, it said.
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