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A South Florida man who died after eating raw oysters and contracted a carnivorous disease had various drugs in his body, including cocaine and fentanyl.
Roger Pinkney, 44, from Davie, died July 31 after spending eight days in hospital with fever and stomach pains after eating at the Rustic Inn Clubhouse in Fort Lauderdale, NBC 6 reported. It reports, citing Broward’s findings. county coroner.
“For over 60 years, we’ve served billions of oysters, and no one has gotten sick like this man.
Inspectors from the Florida Department of Health inspected the restaurant’s kitchen and oyster inventory the day after the man became ill, Oreal told the newspaper.
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“We passed with flying colors and were allowed to continue selling oysters,” he said, adding that the oysters currently being served are from Louisiana. In that case, we would know it because someone else got sick.
The coroner’s report said Pinckney tested positive for cannabis, cocaine, fentanyl, oxycodone and opiates posthumously. Pinkney also tested positive for Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium found in warm seawater, according to NBC 6.
While hospitalized, Pinkney began to experience necrotizing fasciitis (a carnivorous disease) “due to bacteria”. rice field.
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“It still doesn’t feel completely real,” his daughter, Jerin Pinckney, told South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Jerin Pinckney described her father as “every party’s life” and said that “there was never a dull moment around him.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vibrio doesn’t look, smell, or taste like oysters. According to the agency, vibriosis affects about 80,000 people in the United States each year and causes about 100 deaths.
The Florida Department of Health says 26 people have contracted the bacteria so far this year, six of whom have died. In 2021, 34 people were infected and 10 died. And in 2020, 7 out of 36 people who got sick died.
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A Pensacola man died last week after contracting bacteria from oysters he bought at the market, the Pensacola News Journal reported. Those oysters were also from Louisiana, officials said.
Bacterial-related infections are common in oysters and raw seafood during the summer months when water temperatures rise, Professor Robert Farr of the University of West Florida told the paper.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.