Texas Woman Loses Sight in one Eye after Mud Run .

A young Texas mom went blind in her eye after flesh-eating bacteria seeped its way into a cut during a “Mud Run” earlier this month in Dallas.

 

Brittany Williams has no insurance and, after a week week in the hospital, now owes more than $100,000 in medical bills — even as she faces more treatment to prevent the debilitating bacteria from spreading through her body.

 

“My eye started hurting, like maybe I’ve got mud or some debris in there,” Brittany Williams told KTVT-TV of the symptoms she had hours after the race. “When I opened my eye, it was just like white. The whole room was white.”

Beard Bacteria survey Compares Facial Hair to Fecal Matter but others find the Results Fuzzy

A man’s beard may be carrying as much bacteria as his toilet.

So says a survey by New Mexico TV station KOAT-TV which enlisted a Quest Diagnostics microbiologist to evaluate germ swabs from a “handful of brave men” for a test of their facial hair’s cleanliness. The report uncovered bacteria comparable to that found on potties in “several” of the beards.

“These are the kind of things you’d find in feces,” Quest’s John Golobic told the TV station while holding up a brown-stained petri dish. “It certainly shows a degree of uncleanliness that could be somewhat disturbing.”