<br><div><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el" aria-label="Video - California mother lost all limbs to infection after eating fish"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">A Northern California mother who reportedly ate undercooked fish from a San Jose market is now a quadruple amputee after likely contracting a bacterial infection from the food, her friend says.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Laura Barajas, 40, of San Jose, became ill <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-lauras-unexpected-turn?fbclid=IwAR1j6nw6K97RtULzfqF_vOFPbW5--m0CfbfrpG1GuPq6w5Y-qyRlg6_r0l0" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a" rel="noopener">after she bought fish from a local market in July</a>, cooked it and ate it, her friend, Anna Messina, told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-jose-woman-loses-limbs-battling-bacterial-infection-from-tilapia/" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a" rel="noopener">Bay Area outlet KRON</a>.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Messina said in an online fundraiser that Barajas, who has a 6-year-old son, was hospitalized and diagnosed with a vibrio vulnificus infection, which the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cdc.gov/vibrio/wounds.html" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a" rel="noopener">CDC says</a> can require amputations and sometimes lead to death within a day or two of becoming ill.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">“She was on a respirator,” Messina told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-jose-woman-loses-limbs-battling-bacterial-infection-from-tilapia/" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a" rel="noopener">KRON</a>. “They put her into a medically induced coma. Her fingers were black, her feet were black, her bottom lip was black. She had complete sepsis and her kidneys were failing.”</p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Messina told the outlet the fish her friend consumed was tilapia.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">Raw beef recalled due to E.coli concern:</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/18/ground-beef-recalled-ecoli/70889190007/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|spike click:7|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">58,000 pounds of ground beef recalled over possible E. coli contamination</a></p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_mt">Mother now a quadruple amputee</h2><figure class="gnt_em gnt_em_img"><img class="gnt_em_img_i" style="height:660px" fetchpriority="high" data-g-r="lazy" data-gl-src="https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2023/09/19/USAT/70901088007-microsoft-teamsimage-22.png?width=660&height=660&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" decoding="async" alt="Laura Barajas"/></figure><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">After being hospitalized for more than a month, her friend wrote in the online fundraiser, doctors removed both of the woman's arms and legs on Sept. 13 "in order to save her life."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"Find it in your hearts to support this beautiful family during this incredibly challenging time," Messina wrote on the fundraising page. "What has happened to them could happen to any of us."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">Rare brain-eating amoeba kills person:</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/15/naegleria-fowleri-arkansas-brain-eating-amoeba/70861324007/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|spike click:12|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Person dies of rare brain-eating amoeba...</a></p></div> <style> .wrapper { text-align: center; } </style> <div class="wrapper"> <a class="button" href ="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/19/woman-arms-legs-amputated-infection-fish/70898508007/">Read more <span>➤</span></a> </div>
