A MOM of two nearly died after being infected with flesh-eating bacteria at a Florida beach.

Genevieve Gallagher, 49, contracted Vibrio vulnificus bacteria through a scratch on her left leg that she thought was harmless.

Gallagher is still in the hospital after she was infected with the deadly bacteria while swimming with her daughter in the Santa Rosa Sound, located off Pensacola Beach, on July 27.

Three days later, her leg started to balloon, blister, and burn. Gallagher said she felt sweaty and sick.

" It feels like somebody took gasoline, poured it on my leg, and lit my leg on fire. That's what it feels like ," Gallagher told the Pensacola News Journal in an interview from her hospital bed.

Once she was at the hospital, doctors rushed her into emergency surgery after they foun

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