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Woman dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria from oysters
CBS "News" ^ | January 8, 2018

Posted on 01/08/2018 1:13:19 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Back in September, Texas residents Vicki Bergquist and wife Jeanette LeBlanc were visiting family in Louisiana. They went crabbing with friends and family on the coast, picking up a sack of raw oysters in a market in Westwego. It wasn't long after when LeBlanc's health rapidly declined, CBS affiliate KLFY reports.

The couple's friend Karen Bowers says she and LeBlanc shucked and ate about two dozen raw oysters.

"About 36 hours later she started having extreme respiratory distress, had a rash on her legs and everything," Bergquist said.

"An allergic reaction of sorts, that's what I would call it. That's what we thought," Bowers added.

LeBlanc's condition went from bad to worse in the first 48 hours.

Doctors told Jeanette she had vibrio — a potentially deadly bacterial infection.

"It's a flesh-eating bacteria. She had severe wounds on her legs from that bacteria," Bergquist said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people can become infected with vibrio after eating raw or under-cooked shellfish or by exposing open wounds to brackish water.

LeBlanc had been in contact with both. For the next 21 days, she fought for her life.

"I can't even imagine going through that for 21 days, much less a day. Most people don't last," Bowers said.

LeBlanc was not able to recover. She died on October 15th, 2017.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blueoystercult; flesheatingbacteria; foodsupply; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; jeanetteleblanc; louisiana; oyster; oysters; pearls; rawoysters; texas; vibrio; vickibergquist
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To: Skywise
How does eating oysters give you flesh eating bacteria? I understand getting it in cuts through the skin or from surgery - but Not consumption?

She may well have done some shucking without gloves, which would have created a cut that the bacteria could have used for entry. (I must say that my mind is starting to wander with all this talk of lesbians, shucking, gloves and clams.)

41 posted on 01/08/2018 2:39:01 PM PST by KevinB (When you drink the water, remember the men or women who dug the well.)
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To: Red Badger

You would think they would use a different term. Spouse would be a more acceptable term. Truth is, I stopped reading there, too.


42 posted on 01/08/2018 2:39:16 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“Don’t understand the real point of printing this.”

My guess is just to refer to a homosexual “married” couple. Don’t want them to feel left out of the news.


43 posted on 01/08/2018 2:41:43 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: shotgun

Joe shut it down and shotgun NAILED it down!!!


44 posted on 01/08/2018 2:48:46 PM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Worth the risk.


45 posted on 01/08/2018 2:55:25 PM PST by The Toll
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To: McBuff

I’ve heard your not supposed to eat any clams during the Red Tide.


46 posted on 01/08/2018 3:09:22 PM PST by shotgun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oysters are great at removing pollution, and although they might be tasty, they concentrate toxins and bacteria.


47 posted on 01/08/2018 3:13:46 PM PST by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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To: montag813

So you don’t eat pork?


48 posted on 01/08/2018 3:15:56 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: McBuff

The article does not mention if her immune system was compromised by illness or chemotherapy. Healthy people are constantly exposed to vibro and other fatal pathogens and do not succumb.


49 posted on 01/08/2018 3:17:22 PM PST by tic334
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

How about “If you’ll be Frank with me I’ll be Ernest with you” !!!


50 posted on 01/08/2018 3:18:12 PM PST by ontap
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Glad I read this AFTER a weekend in New Orleans where I had oysters three days in a row.

Acme Oysters in the French Quarter.... best I have ever had. Waiting line at the door from open to close every day.


51 posted on 01/08/2018 3:21:07 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: dfwgator
Nope....not going to go there.........nope....

Wouldn't be prudent.

52 posted on 01/08/2018 3:29:50 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: murron
I love fried oysters and charbroiled oysters.

I've been known to leave Drago's in a food coma.

53 posted on 01/08/2018 3:34:36 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: dfwgator

Noooo please do, however, let me go first.
If it smells like rotten fish you shouldn’t eat it.
If you can pick it up that easy you shouldn’t eat it.
Females eat oysters, she must be the top.


54 posted on 01/08/2018 3:36:18 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Try oyster Rockefeller


55 posted on 01/08/2018 3:40:14 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Red Badger

“....Stopped reading right there................... “

Maybe it was Victor?


56 posted on 01/08/2018 3:44:24 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Since we are throwing away all common sense, why is Jeanette not her husband?

They had an arm wrestling contest.
Vicki won.

57 posted on 01/08/2018 3:44:38 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Raw oysters? Hate them. It’s like eating wads of phlegm.


58 posted on 01/08/2018 3:49:19 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: shotgun

“clams of bearded variety...”

And their mortal enemy the love python.


59 posted on 01/08/2018 3:51:31 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“LeBlanc’s condition went from bad to worse in the first 48 hours.”

How long did we wait before going to a doctor? Probably blew it off as just another “rash”.


60 posted on 01/08/2018 3:53:33 PM PST by Bonemaker
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