"WARNING TO ALL ANGLERS"
After a startling increase over the past few days of recreational anglers being admitted to hospitals in Mission and Abbotsford with serious infections, doctors on duty stated that anglers with any open wounds should use great caution or refrain from standing in - or washing their hands altogether in - any slow moving freshwater. This warning comes after doctors uncovered evidence that two fisherman contracted Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria from washing their dirty hands in seemingly clean freshwater. Doctors have warned that A. Hydrophila bacteria (which comes from human sewage) is present in the Fraser and other local rivers at all times and can cause massive trauma to the human body (i.e., gas bubbles in the musculature, liquefaction of muscle tissue and organs, gangrene, serious infections etc. "If you do have an open wound and wash your hands in water where you happen to be fishing, and you notice any immediate redness or swelling, get to a hospital as soon as you can," doctors warned. This is serious stuff and no joke! One angler I know was admitted to the emergency ward in Abbotsford's MSA Hospital today at 1 o'clock after standing in the Fraser River with an exposed cut on his leg while fishing for sockeye salmon . For the unfortunate but lucky angler, the result will be a week of work missed and the headache of being hooked up to intravenous for four days.



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