Second Man In Two Weeks Gets Flesh-Eating Bacteria After A Day At The Beach

KYLE, Texas — A Texas man has been hospitalized with a flesh-eating bacterial infection — the second case in two weeks — after having spent a day at the beach with his family, according to media reports.

Adrian Ruiz, 42, of Buda, Texas, developed a headache and fever before noticing a red rash developing on his leg after having spent the day at Port Aransas, KENS 5 reported. He's since been diagnosed as having contracted the bacteria described as "flesh eating" in that its toxins kill cells with which they come into contact through existing cuts or scrapes on a victim's body.

"He is fighting to keep his leg," the man's family said in a prepared statement on Thursday.

“If we would have known that there was flesh-eating bacteria in the water, we wouldn’t have gotten in,” Ruiz's wife, Lashelle Ruiz, told KXAN-TV.

A week earlier, another man contracted the flesh-eating bacteria in Galveston, Texas. On June 17, doctors were forced to amputate the right leg of Brian Parrott, 50, of Jacinto City, Texas, after he was felled by the bacteria in Galveston.

"Doctors hope (the infection) is controlled, and they're watching it real close," Parrott's mother, Donna Dailey, told People magazine. "Every time it seems like it's getting better, then something else happens."

The Houston Chronicle noted that Parrott is diabetic, exacerbating his medical issues related to the flesh-eating bacteria given a weakened immune system.