Posted on 06/20/2023 6:56:55 PM PDT by DallasBiff
A 54-year-old Missouri man died Thursday after he contracted a flesh-eating bacterium from eating raw oysters, officials say.
The man, whom officials are not publicly identifying, became infected after he ate oysters he bought from The Fruit Stand & Seafood in the St. Louis suburb of Manchester, the St. Louis County Public Health Department announced Friday
The bacterium, Vibrio vulnificus, is typically contracted by consuming raw or undercooked oysters and other shellfish. Symptoms of vibriosis, the disease it causes, include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever and chills.
Death is rare after having contacted vibriosis, and it typically occurs in people with weakened immune systems, the health department said.
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That’s what I thought. I don’t eat them raw or cooked so.. Closest I get to raw fish is that fake crab meat stuff.
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Sushi is bait where I come from. Especially catfish bait. Just saying. Guys in Missouri know this, at least most of them. RIP
We just got back from Arlington, Virginia and my son’s girlfriend said that you only eat oysters in months with an r in them.
She’ll gosh in general
Crab in California one only eats then
That whole the World is My Oyster did not quite work out for this guy.
Yes, the “R” rule.
I love cooked oysters. Raw they look like snot.
I detest ANY raw animal. Ugh.
Carrots, apples, pears, lettuce, cucumbers, mushrooms, tomatoes, cherries, peaches, etc I can eat raw.
But oysters. Double ugh.
Poor guy. So sad for his family.
There is actual good reason to stick with the adage of only eating oysters when there is an R in the month.
One of the benefits/features of the China Virus 2019 shots.
I think that goes back to times when we hadn’t the refrigeration, water quality regulations that we have now, and when oysters weren’t farmed.
Most that you’ll get in a store now are probably safe year around.
I’d be a little concerned with home-caught ones in Summer, if you aren’t sure of the practices of the people who caught them.
Years ago, I would go out on the water at 5:00 a.m. drop anchor on an oyster bed, pull up a few, shuck them right there and then and have raw oysters for breakfast.
Now, I go to restaurants and before eating oysters, I ask to see the tag.
Oysters, yuck! I’ll stick with my gas station sushi.
And in States with a seashore. Raw oysters in Missouri? Hard pass.
Sometimes, the oyster eat you.
Not that hard to COOK oysters. Perhaps others will learn from him.
Used to buy raw, shucked oysters by the gallon from Qualman’s oyster farm in Charleston, OR back in the 70s. We’d keep them iced and eat them up in no more than two days, though. I’ve never been sick from oysters, and I don’t want to be.
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