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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.
CNN reported about the illness and a study that calls it a "growing disease" in Western countries. The worms invade the stomach wall or intestine and can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, and ...
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 ...
Vibrio vulnificus is a species of gram-negative, motile, curved rod-shaped (bacillus), pathogenic bacteria of the genus Vibrio.Present in marine environments such as estuaries, brackish ponds, or coastal areas, V. vulnificus is related to V. cholerae, the causative agent of cholera. [7]
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).
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 ...
Shellfish allergy is among the most common food allergies."Shellfish" is a colloquial and fisheries term for aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs such as clams, mussels, oysters and scallops, crustaceans such as shrimp, lobsters and crabs, and cephalopods such as squid and octopus.
The oysters in question were sold under the names Fanny Bay, Buckley Bay and Royal Miyagi oysters that were harvested in British Columbia between Dec. 1, 2024, and Dec. 9, 2024.