A meeting of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force last week mostly concerning oyster fishing business also found time to include a grim note about the recent deaths of one Louisianan and another visitor to the state due to infection from the Vibrio vulnificus, aka flesh-eating, bacteria from oysters caught in the state’s coastal waters, NBC News reports on that MAHA feeling.
“Many people with Vibrio vulnificus infection can become seriously ill and need intensive care or limb amputation,” the state Department of Health said. “About one in five people with this infection dies, sometimes within a day or two of becoming ill.” The two deaths bring the in-state total to four in 2025 within Louisiana while reportedly two more died in Florida from Louisiana-caught oysters.