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A whale of an outbreak. (Indications).(food poisoning outbreak after village harvests and eats blubber from beached whale)

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| March 01, 2003 | Berger, Joanne M. | COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Residents of a western Alaskan fishing village had good reason to groan, "I feel like a beached whale." It seems that after finding a dead adult beluga on the shore, they harvested the skin and pink blubber in its tail, refrigerated it, and later ate it raw Two days after the whale was found, a physician reported three suspected cases of food-borne botulism. Epidemiologists came in to look for botulinum toxin in the patients' blood, stool, and stomach ...

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