Botulism Type E Outbreak Associated with Eating a Beached Whale, Alaska
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We report an outbreak of botulism that occurred in July 2002 in a group of 12 Alaskan Yu'pik Eskimos who ate blubber and skin from a beached beluga whale. Botulism death rates among Alaska Natives have declined in the last 20 years, yet incidence has increased.
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Type E Botulism: a Hazard of the North
I N 1908, on returning after two years’ absence to the head of the Mackenzie Delta, the explorer Stefansson (1929) learned that many of his Eskimo acquaintances were dead, including a group of eight “poisoned by eating the meat of a freshly killed white whale.” Calamities of that sort were familiar to whalers and attributed by them to ptomaine poisoning; but Stefansson concluded this could scar...
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