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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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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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