A Texas man died after he contracted a “relentless” flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing on a local beach on the Fourth of July, according to a new report.

Gary Evans, 56, died July 8 from the bacterial infection known as necrotizing fasciitis — only four days after his wife Debbie Mattix, 60, said he was exposed to Vibrio bacteria at Magnolia Beach, The Victoria Advocate reported.

“He was in his element there … around everything he loved most – his friends, his family, his crabbing on the water,” Mattix told the paper. “But on Saturday morning, he couldn’t walk. That is how quick it hit.”

People usually become infected by the Vibrio bacteria — which live in coastal waters — by eating raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters, but “vibriosis” can also occur when an open wound is exposed to salt or brackish water, according to the CDC.

Evans never got into the water or ate raw shellfish, but he was crabbing from the shore and had exposed, minor scrapes, Mattix told the local paper.

Two days later, his legs became severely swollen, so Mattix drove him to the hospital, thinking he was suffering from something as minor as dehydration.

“We got there and they let me know he wasn’t going home; he was going straight into ICU,” Evans told the outlet. “Doctors started treating him for Vibrio, but it wasn’t confirmed until the next day; that is when they said it started manifesting itself.”

He was placed on fluids, antibiotics and painkillers — and by the next day, large, pus-filled blisters developed down his legs. He underwent surgery, but to no avail.

“They did everything they could do,” Mattix told the paper. “He was very, very sick, and it ended up beating him. It spread into his liver, his kidneys and he was on a respirator. It also got into his blood system and started collapsing his veins.”

Evans was 6-foot-4 and in good health, his wife said. He was always helping people — including local senior citizens when tree limbs went down on their properties following Hurricane Harvey, his sister-in-law, Judy Flowers, told the paper.

Several people around the country have recently contracted a flesh-eating bacterial infection.

Ricky Rutherford, of Alabama, is fighting for his life after he became infected during a weekend kayaking trip.

Patty Born, from Santa Rosa County, Florida, shared in a Tuesday interview that she’s lucky to be alive after contracting the flesh-eating infection in 2015 while catching scallops in the water.

“This bacteria is a lot worse than people really think it is,” Mattix told the Advocate. “It is not a bacteria that is easily contained; it comes in with vengeance, and it is relentless, just, like, destroying everything in its path.”