A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale and a Pensacola man, with a Texas connection, both died of a bacterial infection after eating oysters from Louisiana.
that the man who died had worked years ago at the restaurant famous for garlic crabs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Vibrio bacteria doesn’t make an oyster look, smell, or taste any different. The agency said about 80,000 people get vibriosis in the U.S. each year, and about 100 people die from it. The Florida Department of Health says 26 people have become infected with the bacteria and six of them later died after eating raw shellfish, including oysters, so far this year. In 2021, 10 people died out of 34 people sickened. In 2020, there were seven deaths among the 36 who became ill.
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