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Dallas man dies after eating raw oysters at Florida restaurant

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(Studer Community Institute) PENSACOLA, Fla. - A Dallas man died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters.

The Pensacola News Journal identified the man as Rodney Jackson, a 55-year-old Air Force veteran, who bought oysters from a seafood market in Florida during a recent trip.A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale died the same way this month.

Both cases involved oysters from Louisiana.Gary Oreal, who manages the Rustic Inn, told the newspaper "Over the course of 60 years, we have served a couple billion oysters, and we never had anyone get sick like this guy did."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.Inspectors from the Florida Department of Health checked out the restaurant's kitchen and examined its oyster inventory the day after the man became ill, Oreal told the newspaper."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."The restaurant has a sign warning patrons about the risks of eating raw shellfish."Oysters are top of the mountain for dangerous foods to eat," Oreal said. "I have eaten them my entire life, and will continue.

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