BAY ST. LOUIS, MS (WVUE) - A Mississippi family calls for an urgent warning after another case of deadly, flesh-eating bacteria left a Gulf Coast man fighting for his life.

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At 64 years old and retired, Brian Schilling spent one July afternoon out on the water in Bay St. Louis, but that quick trip to pick up some crab traps and tie up the boat at the Henderson Point public launch changed his life forever.

Schilling’s fiancé, Lisa Vignes, says he scraped his leg on a boat trailer and didn’t think much of it, until his entire leg went black within 12 hours.

He was rushed to the hospital, where Vignes says the love of her life underwent surgeries twice a week to try and save his leg from the deadly vibrio vul

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