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Published online 6 October 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051003-8
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Oyster illness muscles into Alaska
Warming waters blamed for food poisoning.
Alaska's dramatic warming trend seems to be affecting human health. A bacterium that plagues oysters has moved some 1,000 kilometres northwards into the warming waters of Prince William Sound, causing an outbreak of diarrhoea on a 2004 Alaskan cruise.
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