FRI Briefings Non-Cholera Vibrios
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Oyster beds in Galveston Bay, Texas, were closed to harvesting during most of the summer of 1998 because 416 persons in 13 states fell ill after eating raw oysters traced to this location (21). Then, just as these shellfish beds appeared to be safe again, New York authorities forbade the harvest of clams and oysters from beds near Long Island in mid-September, after 10 people became ill from eating raw shellfish collected there. The bacterial pathogen contaminating shellfish in both areas was identified as Vibrio parahaemolyticus. In the summer of 1997, this organism caused another large outbreak in the Pacific Northwest with 209 cases and one death (8). A related species, V. vulnificus, was blamed for two fatalities in Florida in 1998 and for a total of 33 deaths in the U.S. in 1996 (9,20).
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