Toxins Food and Water Borne Conditions and Diseases

Caused by the consumption of subtropical and tropical marine finfish which have accumulated naturally occurring dinoflagellate toxins through their diet. Includes cause, associated fish, symptoms, and outbreaks.

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• The Merck Manual: Chemical Food Poisoning - Causes, symptoms, and signs of poisoning caused by eating plants food and water borne or animals that contain a naturally occurring poison.
• CDC: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning - Includes factsheet and publications.
• Ricin Toxin from the Castor Bean Plant - Scientific and medical article on the toxin and conditions and diseases conditions and diseases its effects.
• American.edu: Blowfish and Trade - Outline and overview of this subject.
• What You Should Know About Pfiesteria piscicid - This toxic dinoflagellate can cause symptoms in people conditions and diseases toxins exposed to water contaminated by the toxin. Information conditions and diseases toxins about the organism and links to technical and conditions and diseases toxins other material on this organism.
• Cyclopeptide-Containing Mushroom Toxicity - Features cause, symptoms, treatment, and possible antidotes.
• Bad Bug Book: Various Shellfish-Associated Toxins - Caused by consuming shellfish that have accumulated dinoflagellate toxins. Features conditions and diseases cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
• Poisonous Mushrooms - Description of toxic species and the symptoms their food and water borne toxins produce.
• WHO: Water-related diseases - Cyanobacterial Toxins - Includes cause, effects on people, distribution, scope of the problem, toxins and prevention.
• Harmful Algal Blooms and Biotoxins - Factsheet on algal blooms and their effects on humans through food and water borne affected fish and shellfish.
• eMedicine Health - Ricin - Consumer health resource center providing information on the symptoms and toxins treatment of ricin poisoning.
• Food Safety Research Information Office: Ciguatoxin - Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the food and water borne toxin.
• DBMD - Marine Toxins - Discusses the causes, symptoms, and prevention of several conditions and diseases food and water borne toxins carried by fish and shellfish.
• Bad Bug Book: Tetrodotoxin - Pufferfish or Fugu poisoning. Includes cause, symptoms, prognosis, and outbreaks.
• eMedicine - Toxicity, Tetrodotoxin - Article by Theodore Benzer, MD, PhD.
• Bad Bug Book: Mushroom Toxins - Includes toxic substances and their effects, symptoms, diagnosis, food and water toxins borne descriptions of some poisonous mushrooms, and outbreaks.
• Bad Bug Book: Scombrotoxin - Caused by the ingestion of foods that contain high levels food and water borne of histamine. Includes cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
• AmericanMushrooms.com: The Death Cap Mushroom (Amanita phalloides) - Images, description, related mushrooms, and discussion of toxicity.
• Bad Bug Book: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning - Caused by the consumption of subtropical and tropical conditions and diseases toxins marine finfish which have accumulated naturally occurring dinoflagellate conditions and diseases toxins toxins through their diet. Includes cause, associated conditions and diseases toxins fish, symptoms, and outbreaks.
• eMedicine - Toxicity, Mushrooms - Article by Mary E Cataletto, MD.
• Human Illness Associated with Harmful Algae - Discusses the various fish and shellfish toxicities of humans caused by the animal\'s ingestion of toxic algae.

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