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Norovirus causes about 50 perfect of all outbreaks of food-related illness, according to the CDC. Any food can be contaminated by norovirus or hepatitis A if it's handled by an infected person.
For more than a decade along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico, millions of farmed oysters, which are grown in cages or bags in tidal areas, have fallen victim to Sudden Unusual Mortality Syndrome ...
Recent concerns involve oysters being linked to norovirus, a contagious virus that causes similar symptoms along with muscle aches. “Oysters can carry norovirus if they are harvested from ...
Perkinsus marinus is a species of alveolate belonging to the phylum Perkinsozoa. [1] It is similar to a dinoflagellate. [1] [2] It is known as a prevalent pathogen of oysters, causing massive mortality in oyster populations.
Haplosporidium nelsoni is a pathogen of oysters that originally caused oyster populations to experience high mortality rates in the 1950s, [1] and still is quite prevalent today. The disease caused by H. nelsoni is also known as MSX (multinucleated unknown or multinuclear sphere X).
Shellfish poisoning includes four syndromes that share some common features and are primarily associated with bivalve molluscs (such as mussels, clams, oysters and scallops.) [1] As filter feeders, these shellfish may accumulate toxins produced by microscopic organisms, such as cyanobacteria, diatoms and dinoflagellates.
The bacteria are found naturally in warm seawater, and can cause a severe and potentially life-threatening illness in humans called vibriosis. Some experts warn it could pose a growing threat.
On Friday, the FDA issued an outbreak advisory that Future Seafoods Inc., a Canadian business, distributed raw oysters across country that contained the possibly deadly bacteria, the agency said.