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 ...

Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio. Scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued a statement on Wednesday, Aug. 16 after the death of a Suffolk County resident, warning ...

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.

Food safety officials in New Zealand have again warned people not to eat raw mussels because of a risk of Vibrio infection. Figures from the Institute of Environmental Science and Two people are sick ...

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 ...

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HARTFORD, Conn. >> Two Connecticut residents have died this summer from infections linked to a bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater, the Connecticut Department of Public Health said Tuesday.