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A Florida man has died from a bacterial infection from eating a raw oyster at the famed Rustic Inn Crabhouse in Fort Lauderdale. The death is the second in the state this month traced to the bacteria found in an oyster.
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The man who died after eating a bacteria-tainted oyster has been identified as 44-year-old Roger "Rocky" Pinckney of Davie.
The CDC said about 80,000 people get vibriosis in the U.S. each year, and about 100 people die from it.
Two people died of a bacterial infection in separate restaurants Florida after consuming raw oysters. In both cases, the oysters were from Louisiana.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale has died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters. A Pensacola man died