Dave Kruger wrote: > (snip)In a mid-June trip, the victim was a woman who ate mussels from the same > batch > as the other five of us, gleaned from the same rocks the rest of us picked > from, cooked en masse with all the other mussels. She got pretty sick in the > night, but recovered the next day well enough to paddle eight miles, and then > do a night paddle. Can one lone mussel be heavily contaminated, in the midst > of others which are not? This trip was before the algae blooms hit our area. > It could have been that she was allergic to iodine. This is a fairly common allergy, but most people don't discover it until they eat very fresh seafood from waters heavy in iodine. Her symptoms sound exactly like those caused by an allergic reaction. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 14 1999 - 10:06:12 PDT
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