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Alabama Woman Faces Year of Antibiotics After Vibrio Infection

9/26/2025

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Summerlin Skipworth, a 30-year-old from Spanish Fort, Alabama, contracted Vibrio vulnificus after cutting her foot on Labor Day and needed emergency surgery.
She now needs mobile IV antibiotics and oral antibiotics for a year.
CDC: about 80,000 vibriosis cases annually in the U.S., with 20% fatality for Vibrio vulnificus.
Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana reported 59 cases with six fatalities.

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Story summary

Summerlin Skipworth, a 30-year-old from Spanish Fort, Alabama, contracted Vibrio vulnificus after cutting her foot on Labor Day and needed emergency surgery.
She now needs mobile IV antibiotics and oral antibiotics for a year.
CDC: about 80,000 vibriosis cases annually in the U.S., with 20% fatality for Vibrio vulnificus.
Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana reported 59 cases with six fatalities.