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'FBI' star Derek Hedlund nearly loses leg in New Jersey crab attack

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"FBI star Derek Hedlund nearly died after being cut by a crab. Hedlund told Page Six that he was helping a pal move a Jet Ski in Red Bank, N.J., in July when the crustacean clawed at his foot, leaving a tiny cut -- and it turned out that the water he was wading in was infected with the “flesh-eating bacteria” Vibrio.

Hedlund told the outlet that his foot swelled up alarmingly, and at one stage a doctor said to him, “You see this line on your leg?

That is the [vibriosis] spreading up your leg. You can literally see it.” Medical staff even told the actor that if it reached a certain point on his leg, they’d have to amputate it to save his life.

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