You can die eating oysters

A woman died after eating raw oysters, contracting a dangerous flesh-eating bacteria.

Jeanette LeBlanc was visiting friends with her partner Vicki Bergquist on the Louisiana coast last September.

With her family, she prepared and ate two dozen oysters. She became seriously ill 36 hours later.

"She started having extreme respiratory distress. She had a skin reaction on her legs and all over. "

"We felt like it was some sort of allergic reaction, that's how I would have qualified it. That's what we thought, "adds the woman.

In less than 48 hours, things got worse, her condition went from serious to very serious.

Doctors discovered that Jeanette contracted a vibrio bacteria. This is a dangerous flesh eating bacteria.

According to the US Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people can contract vibrio by eating raw seafood, or that is not sufficiently cooked, or when an open wound is touching the skin. backwater.

According to her family, Jeanette has been in contact with both elements.

She fought the bacteria for 21 days, but was never able to take over. She died on October 15, 2017.

Now, members of her family want to raise awareness of the risks of this bacteria.

"If Jeanette had known that the risk was so high, I think she would have stopped eating it."