California Teen Traveling To Colorado For Treatment Of Rare Flesh-Eating Bacteria From Fish Tank

If you're a parent this is your worst nightmare! I have a fish pond in front of my house and I will always wear gloves when cleaning it. Thirteen Year Old Hannele Cox, will continue her battle of a rare and virulent form of flesh-eating bacteria in her hand, from her home fish tank.

Cox was only 8-years-old she was cleaning out the family fish tank and contracted a very rare infection in a scrape on her hand called mycobacterium marinum, or sometimes called fish tank granuloma, according to 7News. That was from five years ago and now the bactera has become drug-resistant and transformed into a “superbug” strain that is eating away her tissue and several bones in her right hand, which may lead to amputation.

“I can’t use the hand at all. I’m in pain all the time,” Cox says to ABC News.