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An event celebrating the top restaurants in Los Angeles left at least 80 people sickened with norovirus due to an outbreak linked to raw oysters, LA County's Department of Public Health confirmed ...
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.
Following the L.A. Times 101 Best Restaurants event at the Hollywood Palladium on Dec. 3, dozens of patrons reported symptoms that included diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain and vomiting, the Times ...
Vibrio vulnificus is the most common cause of death due to seafood in the United States, causing over 95% of deaths that are known to have occurred due to ingested seafood. If treatment with tetracycline or other cephalosporin antibiotics is initiated at the onset of symptoms and the full course followed, patients generally experience no long ...
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).
Marine vibrio bacteria, the most common bacteria found in seawater, is often concentrated in oysters. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes symptoms of vibriosis, a vibrio ...
Vibrio parahaemolyticus (V. parahaemolyticus) is a curved, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterial species found in the sea and in estuaries which, when ingested, may cause gastrointestinal illness in humans. [1] V. parahaemolyticus is oxidase positive, facultatively aerobic, and does not form spores.
The pack dates on the oysters are Nov. 25 or later, and the oysters are labeled with the cert. numbers: BC 740 SP and BC 6001 SP. They were harvested in the following areas in British Columbia: 14 ...