Amanda Austrin is still sick after eating contaminated fish in 2011. Photo / Alan Gibson A man who suffered ciguatera poisoning after eating contaminated fish says the toxin stayed in his body for ...

"Some fishing guides started seeing these whirling fish around Big Pine Key," said Mike Parsons, a Florida Gulf Coast ...

Mike Parsons is a professor and researcher at Florida Gulf Coast University, and he's an expert in ciguatera, which is typically talked about when discussing food borne illnesses in humans.

One of the microalgae species detected, Gambierdiscus, produces several toxins, including a compound responsible for a common form of fish poisoning in humans called ciguatera. “It’s been a ...

The sawfish was inflicted with the same illness that is causing other fish to exhibit a strange spinning behavior.

For the erratic, spinning behavior, scientists have speculated it may be related to a toxin called gambierdiscus, which causes a food-borne illness called ciguatera in people who eat infected fish.

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“I actually asked one of our vendors about ta‘ape and they said they don’t usually sell it because they don’t want to run into any fish carrying ciguatera toxin,” he said. “Whenever we ...

Scientists are continuing to rule out what it could be, and will soon test the toxin ciguatera to see if it could be the ...

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Did you go fishing along the coastline, caught fish but didn’t know the name of the fish, or how to clean or cook the fish?

“People feel that there are certain places that have lower incidences of ciguatera and others just take the risk.” He added that of the 291 roi that were examined on Oahu and Hawaii island ...