Along Florida's warming coastlines, a fourth life has been lost to Vibrio vulnificus — a bacterium that has always lived quietly in saltwater but now, in a season of elevated temperatures and heightened vulnerability, is making its presence felt with fatal consequence. The deaths form a cluster that public health officials can no longer treat as isolated incidents, raising questions about what we owe one another when the pleasures of the table carry hidden and unequal risks. Those most endangered are not the young and healthy but the already burdened — people living with liver disease, diabete
Fourth Florida death linked to flesh-eating bacteria from oysters
Four Florida residents have died from Vibrio vulnificus infection linked to oyster consumption.