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fish poisoning

Illness from eating varieties of poisonous fishes. Most cases are caused by one of three toxins: ciguatera poisoning, from fishes in whose flesh dinoflagellates have produced toxins; tetraodon poisoning, from a nerve toxin in certain pufferlike fish (fugu); and scombroid poisoning from spoilage bacteria in fish of the mackerel family. Shellfish poisoning from eating certain mussels, clams, and oysters has in some instances been traced to the plankton they sometimes feed on.

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BACKGROUND: From January 2002 to May 2004, 28 puffer fish poisoning (PFP) cases in Florida, New Jersey, Virginia, and New York were linked to the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) in Florida.

Saxitoxin puffer fish poisoning in the United States, with the first ... by Steidinger, Karen A. / Environmental Health Perspectives

Ciguatera fish poisoning is a clinical syndrome caused by eating contaminated fish (1).

Ciguatera fish poisoning, Canary Islands by Boada, Luis D. / Emerging Infectious Diseases

However, unlike ciguatera fish poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning, and amnesic shellfish poisoning, no one has been known to die of PCO exposure.

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