Over the summer, three people in New York and Connecticut died, and an additional person was hospitalized, The New York Times reported, after they contracted Vibrio vulnificus, a rare but dangerous ...

Summer is a deadly time for eating shellfish in Florida, particularly raw oysters. Oysters served in Florida and traced back to Louisiana are infecting people with vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that ...

r of gastrointestinal illnesses associated with contaminated raw shellfish prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to advise consumers not to eat raw clams harvested in the Pacific Northwest.

FILE - A basket of oysters is ready for packaging and delivery at Copps Island Oysters on Aug. 9, 2021, in Norwalk, Conn. Two Connecticut residents have died this summer from infections linked to a ...

A man who consumed raw oysters at a restaurant in Texas died days later from a bacterial infection, health officials said. According to Galveston County Local Health Authority Dr. Philip Keiser, the ...

Two people have reportedly died after eating raw oysters that were caught in Louisiana waters. Rodney Jackson of Dallas, a 55-year-old Air Force veteran purchased oysters from a seafood market in ...

A pilot study in France has pointed to a significant under-reporting of shellfish-related foodborne outbreaks. The objectives of the research were to quantify and describe the health impact of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Vibrio infections are on the rise in some coastal states, such as Florida and Louisiana. It’s a bacteria that primarily affects the gastrointestinal system, but can also ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The death of a Long Island resident has been linked to a bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater that has also been blamed for two deaths in Connecticut, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ...