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An Air Force veteran has become the second man to die in Florida from a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters from Louisiana.
Rodney Jackson, 55, became sick after contracting the bacteria from oysters he bought at a market in Pensacola and later died in hospital on August 9.
His death comes just weeks after Roger Pinckney, 44, died after eating a 'one in a billion' bad oyster at the Rustin Inn Crabhouse in Fort Lauderdale.
The two men had eaten oysters that had come from Louisiana before becoming infected with vibrio, a bacteria typically caught from eating raw or undercooked seafood.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Vibrio bacteria doesn't make an oyster look, smell, or taste any different. The agency said about 80,000 people get vibriosis in the U.S. each year, and about 100 people die from it.
Rodney Jackson, 55, (left) became sick after contracting the bacteria from oysters he bought at a market in Pensacola and later died in hospital on August 9. His death comes just weeks after Roger Pinckney, 44, (pictured right with his daughter) died after eating a 'one in a billion' bad oyster at the Rustin Inn Crabhouse in Fort Lauderdale
The two men had eaten oysters that had come from Louisiana before becoming infected with vibrio, a bacteria typically caught from eating raw or undercooked seafood
Jackson, who was a husband, father and grandfather, became sick earlier this month after eating the oysters he bought from a market before he was rushed to Ascension Sacred Heart's ICU where he died.
'You just have to know Rodney. That was always his passion — to help people, to help the community,' his wife, Patricia, told Pensacola News Journal.
'His character and his compassion will always will always live with all of us,' Pastor Marcel Davis, who had been friends with Jackson for over 20 years, told WEAR TV.
Pinckney, who is known as Rocky by friends and family, died weeks earlier on July 31 after eating oysters at the Rustic Inn in Fort Lauderdale in celebration of his 44th birthday.
Pinckney had been enjoying the celebratory dinner with his daughter Jaelyn on July 21 but two days later he arrived at Memorial Pembroke Hospital with a fever and abdominal pain, reports the South Florida SunSentinel.
He tested positive for vibrio and underwent a series of emergency surgeries and a double amputation before he died on July 31.
Gary Oreal, who manages the Rustic Inn,
