Friday, 5 April 2019

PRO/EDR> Grimontia hollisae infection - USA: (WA) raw blue crab ingestion

Foodborne Illness -- United States
Since [7 Feb 2019], Public Health, Seattle and King County, has learned of 2 people from one household who got sick after eating raw blue crab from Seafood City in Tukwila on 18-19 Jan 2019. One of the sick people has laboratory-confirmed _Grimontia hollisae_, which is part of the same family as _Vibrio_ bacteria and causes a similar illness to vibriosis. One of the ill people was hospitalized, and both have since recovered.
The exact food or drink that caused the illness was not

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6406838&promed&0

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