Henry Konietzky Dies From Vibrio Vulnificus, Flesh-Eating Salt Water Bacteria, After Wading In River. A Florida man died after contracting a flesh-eating bacterial infection while wading in a river on Saturday. Henry Konietzky, 59, succumbed to the deadly infection just 28 hours after being exposed while setting crab traps in the Halifax River in Volusia County, according to Click Orlando.