Contagious: Vibrio parahaemolyticus
| About contagion: Contagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Vibrio parahaemolyticus is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include "infection", "infectiousness", "transmission" or "transmissability". Contagiousness has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents. For an overview of contagion, see Introduction to Contagion. |
Contagion discussion:
In 1998, a new
strain of the bacterium Vibrio
parahemolyticus contaminated oyster beds in Galveston
Bay and caused an epidemic of diarrheal illness in persons eating
the oysters raw. The affected oyster beds were near the shipping
lanes, which suggested that the bacterium arrived in the ballast
water of freighters and tankers coming into the harbor from distant
ports.1
Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Foodborne Infections General: DBMD
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