date:Apr 25, 2014
email. We estimate that 50 to 60 percent of U.S. Vibrio infections are acquired through food, many of these are due to eating raw oysters.
Because Vibrio bacteria live in oceans, climate change could play a role in their becoming increasingly common, she said.
Vibrio bacteria multiply when seawater where oysters grow is warm, Henao said. As a result, these infections are most common during the warm months, when waters and oysters contain higher numbers of Vibrio organisms.
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