Flesh-eating bacteria kills Texas woman who ate raw oysters, went crabbing in Louisiana

[TexasTowelie]

A Texas woman died of a flesh-eating bacteria after eating raw oysters that she and her family had picked up at a market in Louisiana, KLFY-TV reported.

Jeannette LeBlanc and her wife Vicki Bergquist were crabbing and visiting family in September and got a sack of oysters from Westwego, a city near New Orleans. Their friend, Karen Bowers, said she and LeBlanc shucked and ate about two dozen of the oysters, the station reported.

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

They thought it was an allergic reaction, but within 48 hours LeBlanc's condition worsened. She developed wounds on her legs from the bacteria, and doctors told her that she had vibrio, KLFY reported.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2018/01/08/texas-woman-dies-flesh-eating-bacteria-after-crabbing-eating-raw-oysters-louisiana

[samnsara]

1. ...and this is why Dave Barry calls oysters 'ocean phlegm'...

..you're not supposed to eat these things.....let alone raw. dear GAWD!

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Perhaps the ancient Hebrews were onto something

If you take out the religious aspect, shellfish are filters that collect every nasty thing the ocean has to offer.

[Javaman]

3. growing up on Long Island as a kid, we thought nothing of eating raw clams...

but in relation to the "phlegm" comment, when people would spit, we used to call it clamming. LOL

And FYI...

I haven't eaten raw shell fish of any kind in years, just for the reason stated in this article and because the high incidence of hepatitis