Missouri man dies after eating raw oysters and contracting flesh-eating bacteria

NBC News ^ | 6/12/23 | Mirna Alsharif

[DallasBiff]

Poor guy, RIP, but isn't there a saying that you should only eat oysters in a month with an 'r".

[pnz1]

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.

[bitt]

P

[Equine1952]

Sushi is bait where I come from. Especially catfish bait. Just saying. Guys in Missouri know this, at least most of them. RIP

[Mean Daddy]

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.

[Nifster]

She’ll gosh in general

Crab in California one only eats then

[Round Earther]

That whole the World is My Oyster did not quite work out for this guy.

[blackdog]

Yes, the “R” rule.

[Jeff Chandler]

I love cooked oysters. Raw they look like snot.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I detest ANY raw animal. Ugh.

Carrots, apples, pears, lettuce, cucumbers, mushrooms, tomatoes, cherries, peaches, etc I can eat raw.

But oysters. Double ugh.

[lastchance]

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.

[fidelis]

[Deaf Smith]

“in people with weakened immune systems”

One of the benefits/features of the China Virus 2019 shots.

[Jamestown1630]

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.

[Round Earther]

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.

[BipolarBob]

Oysters, yuck! I’ll stick with my gas station sushi.

[gundog]

And in States with a seashore. Raw oysters in Missouri? Hard pass.

[kiryandil]

Sometimes, you eat the oyster.

Sometimes, the oyster eat you.

[BobL]

Not that hard to COOK oysters. Perhaps others will learn from him.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

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.