As the gulf waters get warmer, so does the potential for exposure to flesh eating bacteria. The condition is rare, but there are several cases in Florida every year. But as Dr. Michael Kim explains, there are things you can do to protect yourself.
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Removing dying trees from Sanibel after getting poisoned by Hurricane Ian’s storm
We lost a lot of trees when saltwater rushed ashore during Hurricane Ian. Crews are out on Sanibel Island, marking and removing the dying vegetation. Joel Caouette, a biologist for the City of Sanibel, says that arsenic cyanide saltwater “killed these very large trees, killed a lot of trees.” All of these have something in […]

Woman arrested for DUI after being rescued from Cape Coral canal
Cape Coral police say the woman rescued from a car that had crashed into a Cape Coral canal on Saturday is facing charges of driving drunk.

Firefighter jumps saves victim from submerged car in Cape Coral canal
A firefighter breaks a car window and pulls a driver out of a car after crashing into a canal in Cape Coral Saturday morning. According to the Cape Coral Fire Department, Battalion 3, Engine 5, Rescue 5, and Engine 4 all went to NE 9th Avenue and NE 12 Street in response to a car […]

Lee County recruiting bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico
For the first time in three years, Lee County is looking for teachers in Puerto Rico to bring more bilingual educators to a heavily Hispanic student body.
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Tuesday features warm weather, a few inland showers
A few showers will form inland after lunchtime. These will be relatively weak but should bring much-needed rain to several communities.

Brightening downtown Fort Myers with art
Seven teams of artists are painting murals that’ll pop up all over downtown Fort Myers and is for Southwest Florida’s Muralfest. The event will act as a fundraiser to help artists impacted by Hurricane Ian. Like much of Southwest Florida, the art community has been hurting since Hurricane Ian. “The last year, we went through […]

Push to ban COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Collier County
A task force is looking to stop all COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Collier County. The idea is to spell out your rights regarding healthcare, and the vote is Tuesday. The state already largely bans the mandates. But several of the people WINK News spoke to on Monday agreed with no mandates; most said they want […]

Moving Modular: The hurricane-fighting homes coming to Florida’s coasts
Much of Key Largo has been built to code to fight that thorn from breaking the glass of the vase, just like how these homes now need to be built to withstand winds of 180 miles per hour.