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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He taught geology at SWOCC. My mom took his classes, and went on the Mount St. Helens climb many times. I joined them in ‘85.
There was a reason the Bible warned against eating shellfish.
With modern knowledge, careful harvesting, handling and refrigeration, oysters are pretty safe. But oysters at a fruit stand is like gas station sushi. “Choose wisely”...
I grew up in Minnesota. My mom used to say that we can’t sit on the ground in months that have an “R” in them- the ground is too cold. I guess the water is also cold for the little oysters.
After a sauna any cool surface is good.
If your snot looks like raw oysters, consult your doctor immediately!
I once prepared oyster soufflé with oysters I harvested myself down in the Sea of Cortez. Yummy.
Jabbed? /s
Yes, there once was that saying. Then they invented something called "refrigeration." Maybe you've heard of it?
Last time I was in Nawlins I saw a very delectable young woman wearing a t-shirt which had a happy looking oyster on it. The legend was “shuck me suck me, eat me raw.”
I have found eating raw oysters a sensuous treat, especially sitting across from a beautiful woman of like mind.
I used to love raw oysters. But I got a bad one at a seafood restaurant in the Washington, DC area several years back and was violently ill for a night. This was in October, so there was the required ‘r’ in the month.
I’ll never eat another one.
R.I.P. to that man. That’s a bad way to go.
This fellow was in the center of the continent.
Regards,
What "tag?"
Regards,
...and harvesting deer and picking horseradish.
No, it just makes them taste bad.
My degree was from Oregon State. Never met Dr. Stensland. I never climbed Mount St. Helens either, before or after the eruption. I did climb Mt. Hood once, but that’s it for mountain climbing.
I took a couple of Parasitology courses in college. No sushi for me.
If you can’t see or at least smell the ocean, don’t eat them raw. And yes only in months with a “R”
In the 50’s and 60’s my dad would make what he called ‘Oyster Stew” on New Year’s Day. It was oysters boiled in milk, with plenty of butter and oyster crackers. The buttery crackers were great, if they didn’t get too soggy, everything else, yuck!
We kids survived it, probably because the oysters were boiled.
Don't like lobster, but love Oysters. I get them at the bar at the dock where they unload them from the beds which are in eyesight of the dock. Doesn't get much fresher than that. The water in our Maine estuary stays around 40 degrees and is sewage free so the norovirus outbreaks aren't really a thing around here.
However the R months taste better and October, November oysters taste the best.
Not really a vulcanology freak, either, but the two things I’ve seen in the outdoors that just gobsmacked me were Crater Lake, and the lava dome in the St. Helens caldera.
Might wanna adjust the R rule for Florida. They can get some “red tides” in the fall.
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