A California woman is urging the public to avoid standing water after, she says, her son was infected with a flesh-eating bacterium and died. Jeff Bova, 41, died Friday after he waded into standing water with a small cut on his right arm last month as he chased his dog into a pond. Bova was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, his mother said. The often-deadly infection spreads quickly, killing the body’s soft tissue. Symptoms include warm skin with red or purplish areas of painful swelling, including beyond the affected area, followed by fever, fatigue and vomiting. … Mc Intyre, 67 of El Cajon, California, said her son was not one who frequented doctors.