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Acadiana visitor contracts flesh-eating bacteria from oysters
Megan Kelly
Published: January 3, 2018, 10:30 pm Updated: January 9, 2018, 8:08 am
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- Back in September, Texas resident Jeanette LeBlanc went crabbing with friends and family on the Louisiana coast, picking up a sack of raw oysters in a market in Westwego.
But it wasn?t long after when her health rapidly changed.
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?About 36 hours later she started having extreme respiratory distress, had a rash on her legs and everything,? Bergquist said.
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Jeanette?s condition went from bad to worse in the first 48 hours.
Doctors told Jeanette she had vibrio.
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For the next 21 days, she fought for her life.
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Jeanette was not able to recover. She died on October 15th, 2017.
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VERIFY: Can eating raw oysters be fatal?
Danny Monteverde, WWLTV 4:47 AM. CST January 09, 2018
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vibrio bacteria live in coastal water, the same place as oysters. It?s more common in the warmer months between May and October.
?Our Gulf Coast waters definitely can sustain the growth of this organism,? said Dr. Fred Lopez with the Department of Internal Medicine at the LSU School of Medicine.
The bacteria gets into oysters? tissue since they feed by filtering water, and that bacteria could still be in raw or undercooked oysters you might eat.
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How do you know if the oysters you?re about to suck down have the bacteria? You can?t know. An oyster that contains the vibrio bacteria doesn?t look, taste or smell any different from an oyster that doesn?t have the bacteria, according to the CDC.
There?s only one tried-and-true way to make sure any oyster you want to eat is safe.
?Have them cooked. Have them fried, have them boiled,? Lopez said. ?You need to have high, sustained temperatures to kill the organism.?
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Megan Kelly
Published: January 3, 2018, 10:30 pm Updated: January 9, 2018, 8:08 am
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- Back in September, Texas resident Jeanette LeBlanc went crabbing with friends and family on the Louisiana coast, picking up a sack of raw oysters in a market in Westwego.
But it wasn?t long after when her health rapidly changed.
...
?About 36 hours later she started having extreme respiratory distress, had a rash on her legs and everything,? Bergquist said.
...
Jeanette?s condition went from bad to worse in the first 48 hours.
Doctors told Jeanette she had vibrio.
...
For the next 21 days, she fought for her life.
...
Jeanette was not able to recover. She died on October 15th, 2017.
...
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VERIFY: Can eating raw oysters be fatal?
Danny Monteverde, WWLTV 4:47 AM. CST January 09, 2018
...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vibrio bacteria live in coastal water, the same place as oysters. It?s more common in the warmer months between May and October.
?Our Gulf Coast waters definitely can sustain the growth of this organism,? said Dr. Fred Lopez with the Department of Internal Medicine at the LSU School of Medicine.
The bacteria gets into oysters? tissue since they feed by filtering water, and that bacteria could still be in raw or undercooked oysters you might eat.
...
How do you know if the oysters you?re about to suck down have the bacteria? You can?t know. An oyster that contains the vibrio bacteria doesn?t look, taste or smell any different from an oyster that doesn?t have the bacteria, according to the CDC.
There?s only one tried-and-true way to make sure any oyster you want to eat is safe.
?Have them cooked. Have them fried, have them boiled,? Lopez said. ?You need to have high, sustained temperatures to kill the organism.?
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