When a 54-year-old man died from a flesh-eating bacteria after consuming raw oysters, health officials advised any customers who may have bought seafood from the same vendor to discard any shellfish.
The Missourian man has Vibrio vulnificus, a condition brought on by eating the Vibrio bacteria, according to the St. Louis County Public Health Department.
Man Succumbs to Flesh-Eating Bacteria from Raw Oysters
Raw oysters and other shellfish that haven’t fully cooked are the usual way to consume this. The unidentified man had recently consumed raw oysters from Manchester’s The Fruit Stand & Seafood, according to BNO News.
On Thursday, he died at St. Clare Hospital despite efforts to rescue him. The tragedy was reported to health authorities the next day.
“There is no evidence that the business did anything to poison the oysters, which were probably already poisoned when the facility obtained them,” the health officials said in a statement.
DPH embargoed all of the establishment’s remaining oysters.
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Symptoms and Risks
Anybody who recently bought raw oysters from the business on Manchester Road has been urged to throw them away to stop any more incidents.
Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the deadly oysters in the first place.
Within the first 24 hours of consuming undercooked seafood, infected individuals usually feel cramps, watery diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting.
Infections can occasionally be treated with antibiotics.
Regrettably, the illness kills over 100 Americans in this nation every year. Scientists warned in March that every state on the East Coast of the United States might contract a flesh-eating disease over the next 20 years.
They claim that the bacterium can now survive in waters that are further north than ever before due to climate change and that the critter may be forced inland as a result of rising sea levels.
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