The CDC says Vibrio bacteria doesn't make an oyster look, smell, or taste any different. About 100 people die from it each year in the U.S.
Consumers who don't understand terms like "sell by" and "best by" may be throwing money away.A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale has died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters. A Pensacola man died the same way this month. Both cases involved oysters from Louisiana.
"Over the course of 60 years, we have served a couple billion oysters, and we never had anyone get sick like this guy did," Oreal said.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.
"We passed with flying colors and we were allowed to continue to sell oysters," he said, adding the oysters being served currently are from Louisiana. "If there was a problem with the oyster bed we would know it because others would have gotten sick.""Oysters are top of the mountain for dangerous foods to eat," Oreal said. "I have eaten them my entire life, and will continue. But you are putting yourself at risk when you do it.
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