Study finds new bacterial strain can contaminate shellfish
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Oysters are unloaded on Deal Island, Md. in Dec. 2013. Researchers outlined in a report published this month that a new strain of disease-causing bacteria has been found thriving along the Atlantic Coast which can contaminate oysters or other shellfish.
CONCORD, N.H. >> Researchers have found a new strain of bacteria thriving along the Atlantic Coast that can contaminate shellfish and sicken seafood lovers.
Cheryl Whistler and her colleagues at the University of New Hampshire discovered the new strain of the leading seafood-transmitted bacterial pathogen in the world.
Whistler is hoping the discovery of what they call ST631 will give public health agencies along the Atlantic Coast and in Canada the data they need to develop tools to reduce the risk of sickness from eating contaminated shellfish.
The research is detailed in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
ST631 is a strain of the bacteria, known as Vibrio parahaemolyticus. It causes an estimated 45,000 infections in the U.S. each year. Symptoms of an infection include diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
6 responses to “Study finds new bacterial strain can contaminate shellfish”
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Shellfish risk is a known health hazard for decades. Shuck at your peril. I don’t. Prefer my wife’s clams.
Are your wife’s clams that tasty?
Clams? She has more than one? :-O
Nothing new, somebody got money to study what we already know and now they have to publish it.
Anything you eat raw from the Ocean can make you sic, das why I prefer mountain oystahs! Lol!
I hope you eat them raw.