High temperatures and pollution have made conditions ripe for a potentially dangerous bacteria carried in Chesapeake Bay waters, leading state and local health officials to warn swimmers, fishermen and shellfish eaters to take precautions. Vibrio can cause skin infections, gastrointestinal illness.

The State Health Department shut down shellfish harvesting at most Pierce County beaches Thursday because of high levels of paralytic shellfish poison, or “red tide.”

The State Health Department shut down shellfish harvesting at most Pierce County beaches Thursday because of high levels of paralytic shellfish poison ("red tide").

Vibrio can cause skin infections, gastrointestinal illness High temperatures and pollution have made conditions ripe for a potentially dangerous bacteria carried in Chesapeake Bay waters, leading state and local health officials to warn swimmers, fishermen and shellfish eaters to take precautions. Vibrio can cause skin infections, gastrointestinal illness.

Vibrio can cause skin infections, gastrointestinal illness High temperatures and pollution have made conditions ripe for a potentially dangerous bacteria carried in Chesapeake Bay waters, leading state and local health officials to warn swimmers, fishermen and shellfish eaters to take precautions.

Vibrio can cause skin infections, gastrointestinal illness High temperatures and pollution have made conditions ripe for a potentially dangerous bacteria carried in Chesapeake Bay waters, leading state and local health officials to warn swimmers, fishermen and shellfish eaters to take precautions.

It has never been safe to swim there and shellfish do not live there because of the quality of the water.

The governor's office tells NBC 10 that an emergency shellfish restriction order put into place at Conimicut Point will be rescinded on Friday.

The State Health Department shut down shellfish harvesting at most Pierce County beaches Thursday because of high levels of paralytic shellfish poison (“red tide").

Maryland health officials say people may be getting sick from eating raw oysters and other shellfish from the Chesapeake Bay.

Maryland health officials say people may be getting sick from eating raw oysters and other shellfish from the Chesapeake Bay.

“SHOULD we order another six?” my wife, Nancy, asked. We had just agreed that the fresh oysters at the Glenview, a restaurant and inn on the Isle of Skye in Scotland , were probably the best we’d ever had. Under their briny liqueur, they were almost shockingly sweet and meaty.

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People may be getting sick from eating raw oysters and other shellfish from the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland health officials say.

Maryland health officials say people may be getting sick from eating raw oysters and other shellfish from the Chesapeake Bay.

BALTIMORE — Maryland health officials say people may be getting sick from eating raw oysters and other shellfish from the Chesapeake Bay. The culprit is vibrio, a naturally occurring bacteria that's more prevalent in the bay during hot weather.

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The state medical examiner has determined that a heart problem, not paralytic shellfish poisoning, killed a man who ate Dungeness crab that he caught near his Alaska home.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The state medical examiner has determined that a heart problem, not shellfish poisoning, killed a man who ate Dungeness crab at a large Haines gathering. Fifty-seven-year-old...

Some residents in Branford say Short Beach is not the place for commercial fisherman to be pulling in shellfish.