Posted on 01/10/2023 8:20:45 AM PST by Red Badger
Those sweet shellfish may be tempting, but eating oysters in Florida has been dangerous this year.
Oysters have sickened people in the Sunshine State with three different types of illnesses, at least one of them deadly.
Federal officials issued a warning recently for raw oysters harvested in Galveston Bay, Texas, and sold in Florida, along with seven other states. The oysters were potentially contaminated with norovirus and sold to restaurants and retailers. About 211 people were infected by the oysters and had diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain within 12 to 48 hours after eating them.
Publix Supermarkets said it sold the shell-on oysters in its fresh seafood display case at its Publix and Publix Greenwise locations and warned the public of the recall.
Southport Raw Bar & Restaurant stopped selling oysters from the Gulf. "We got notification about the recall so we are no longer using oysters from the Gulf and getting them from Connecticut and Maryland instead," manager Mike Cudnik said.
The recall of Texas oysters that sickened people comes a few weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of a brand of frozen raw oysters harvested in an area of South Korea and distributed in 13 states including Florida. The agency said the oysters from South Korea are suspected of causing sapovirus infections, which is acute gastroenteritis causing vomiting and diarrhea.
This summer, oysters from Louisiana sickened Floridians. A Broward County man died after eating a raw oyster from Louisiana at a Fort Lauderdale seafood restaurant. It was the second death in Florida within weeks from Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that lives in coastal waters and typically sickens people through the consumption of raw shellfish or by entering an open wound, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Might need more cowbell with that.
And from that gathering of mollusks we get...
Go go go Godzilla.
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Eat Oysters! Love Longer!......................😁
Thanks.
So much for that.
Can’t harvest oysters till 2025 and there’s not a problem?
Sheesh.
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Alabama shut down as well:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=alabama+shuts+down+oyster+beds&source=desktop
frozen raw oysters harvested in an area of South Korea and distributed in 13 states including Florida...
...oysters from Louisiana sickened Floridians. A Broward County man died after eating a raw oyster from Louisiana..
This sounds more like an attack on Florida than a 'Florida problem'... is Cindy Krischer Goodman a 'Florida hater'?
Sweet shellfish?
Does this writer eat oysters?
Anymore “good” news?
Nevermind.
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Tourists come here for the seafood and oysters are numero uno on the menus.
The restaurants cant get their oysters fresh from Florida waters because the beds are shut down until 2025.
Alabama just shut theirs down last month.
So the restaurants buy them from overseas and other gulf states, so transportation is a problem.
They may not be as ‘fresh’ as you are used to...................
Boudreaux told Thibodaux that he got some bad oysters last night.
Thib said “What happened?”.
Boudreaux said, “They are supposed to be an aphrodisiac. But I ordered 24 and only half of them worked.”
LOL- Aint that the truth!
Restaurants are now importing oysters from Korea and other Asian countries.......... want to try them?...................
Yeah, I notice dthat.
Clams are ‘sweet’........................
...the article makes it seem like a Florida problem, even though every cited instance involves oysters from out of state. Did the out of state oysters cause any health problems anywhere else? Or did they somehow only ship the contaminated oysters to Florida, and nobody elsewhere got sick?
It may be that Florida’s shutdown beds are closed because of contamination — but it doesn’t say that.
Maybe Florida’s restaurants are bringing in outside oysters to satisfy consumer demand. “Bob’s Oyster Bar” would have a problem with no oysters available.
Maybe Texas and Loosianna don’t handle or ship oysters in a sanitary manner, or maybe the supply chain is too slow.
My main comment was the shoddy article. Personally, I like oysters.
I dealt with the jab by not taking it after doing my own intensive research. Unfortunately I was unable to persuade those around me of the risks because they all went with what the authority figures and media said.
Well I guess it’s back to viagra.
All of the above....................
True, and so very sad. World’s best oysters! I love the town, too.
Atlanta has had water problems for decades, yet still keeps growing and growing. It sucks up all the water and ruined Apalachicola Bay. Florida sued Georgia over it some years ago, but I don’t know what happened so far with the case.
Anyway, it’s crazy. We have all those abandoned towns and cities up North and in the Rust Belt with plentiful water, people moving to the Sun Belt, from Blue States to Red States — and tuning them blue. (And talk about destruction of wealth — all those homes, businesses, infrastructure now rotting away.) Where are they going to go after they ruin the Red States?
Atlanta is a monstrosity. All the disadvantages of a big city, none of the advantages. Too big for its water sources. And no one but no one is *from* Atlanta. Grew way too fast. Can you tell I hate Atlanta?
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