Connecticut residents die after shellfish bacteria infection

[libertybele]

Connecticut residents die after shellfish bacteria infection

Two Connecticut residents died over the summer due to infections linked to bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater, health officials said Tuesday.

The state Department of Public Health said that three people there are known to have been infected with the Vibrio vulnificus bacteria.

However, the state Bureau of Aquaculture said earlier this month that Connecticut shellfish have never been associated with such infections and that the bureau tests commercial oysters statewide and has not detected it in any samples.

Two of the three cases were wound infections not associated with seafood. The third was in a Connecticut resident who consumed raw oysters not harvested from Long Island Sound at an out-of-state establishment...............

https://www.foxnews.com/health/connecticut-residents-die-shellfish-bacteria-infection

[goatprairie]

I have a very good method of never dying from eating raw oysters that might have dangerous bacteria.
I never eat oysters, cooked or raw.

[mountaineer]

Sushi and steak tartare notwithstanding, it's probably a better idea to cook whatever meat you're eating.

[Smokin Joe]

I ate bushels of oysters, raw, scalded, fried, stewed, when I was a young man. Not any more, but then I knew where the oysters were caught (if I did not tong them up, myself).

Now, I am not so inclined. The estuaries I used to fish are not the same, And at this point I would not eat a raw oyster from anywhere. It would have to be cooked.