There has been an increase in Vibrio outbreaks and presence in seafood has been known to disrupt trade, according to FAO and WHO. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and ...
Disease-causing bacteria, including the type behind flesh-eating infections, can colonize rafts of seaweed and plastic pollution in the ocean, raising concerns about the risks to humans if they wash ...
A grouping of Vibrio vulnificus bacteria is revealed in a 13,184x magnified scanning electron microscopic image from 2005. (BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Two more people have died ...
Vibrio infections often begin when people eat raw or undercooked seafood. A man died in Florida earlier this month after eating a contaminated raw oyster. Last week the Centers for Disease Control and ...
The world may be an oyster, but you may want to make sure that you cook it first. As the recent death of a 71-year-old man showed, there are real risks of eating raw oysters. Here is a WTSP News ...
Vibrio vulnificus is a rare but dangerous bacteria found in brackish waters and undercooked seafood that can cause flesh-eating infections. A Florida Gulf Coast University professor is studying if ...
Summer is wrapping up, temperatures are high, and the beach is still calling. But there are risks from bacteria, parasites and other pathogens in the water at beaches, pools and water playgrounds.
About a dozen kinds of Vibrio can cause a human illness called vibriosis, including Vibrio vulnificus, which is contracted via eating uncooked or undercooked shellfish, or when seawater enters a wound ...
Plump, briny oysters harvested in New Hampshire are finding their way onto more menus, and state officials say it’s time to start evaluating the risk for a naturally occurring bacteria that’s made ...