A south Florida man who died after consuming uncooked oysters final month had a number of medicine in his system, together with fentanyl and cocaine, based on a medical medical expert’s report.

Roger “Rocky” Pinckney additionally examined optimistic for hashish, oxycodone, and opiates after his dying on July 31, based on the Broward County Medical Examiner, WTVJ reported.

Together with the detection of the medicine, Pinckney’s blood examined optimistic for vibrio vulnificus, a micro organism present in heat seawater that may trigger sickness, the report mentioned.

The 44-year-old was out celebrating his birthday on July 23 on the Rustic Inn Crabhouse in Fort Lauderdale, the place he had labored a number of years in the past. He was later hospitalized with a fever and stomach pains after consuming oysters on the well-liked eatery.

The supervisor of the restaurant instructed the South Florida Solar-Sentinel reported that as many as 100 dozen oysters have been served the day Pinckney dined on the institution.

“He had that one in a billion that was dangerous,” Gary Oreal reportedly mentioned. “I really feel horrible.”

An lawyer representing Pinckney’s household, Brandon Kathy, instructed The Publish Thursday he had not but reviewed the medical expert’s report.

He denied, nevertheless, that the restaurant had handed the Florida Division of Well being inspection of the restaurant’s kitchen with “flying colours” — as Oreal had instructed native reporters. The inspection had taken place per week after Pinckney had eaten there, Kathy mentioned.

“We don’t know what the circumstances have been on the day [Pinckney ate there], however it’s not signal,” he mentioned.

Kathy mentioned the Meals and Drug Administration has tried to deal with the sale of summertime oysters from the Gulf of Mexico as a result of they know the way lethal vibrio vulnificus could be, however their efforts have been thwarted by the oyster foyer.

“It’s kind of like on a historic stage, like one of many extra evil issues that’s happening within the nation,” he mentioned. “I’ve acquired an curiosity within the sale of those uncooked oysters in the summertime at this level.”

Kathy beforehand represented a Florida couple who was awarded $6.7 million in 2018 after a restaurant served them oysters that prompted meals poisoning and led to a uncommon dysfunction for one in every of them that would have led to paralysis.

The lawyer mentioned he has not but taken any authorized motion in Pinckney’s case as they look ahead to a member of the family to be appointed consultant of his property.

Pinckney is the second particular person in Florida to die from vibrio vulnificus this summer season.

Rodney Jackson, a enterprise director on the Studer Neighborhood Institute in Pensacola, died on Aug. 9 after he turned in poor health after consuming oysters he’d bought at Maria’s Contemporary Seafood Market, The Pensacola Information Journal reported.

Each instances reportedly concerned oysters sourced from Louisiana.

The Facilities for Management Illness and Prevention warns on its web site that whereas most Vibriosis instances happen in hotter climate, instances have been reported all year long.

“An oyster that incorporates dangerous micro organism doesn’t look, odor, and even style completely different from every other oyster,” the CDC says.

The company mentioned about 80,000 folks nationwide get contaminated with vibrio yearly with 100 of them dying from the an infection. Most infections solely end in diarrhea and vomiting, based on the company.