Researchers say warming ocean waters may have tainted Alaskan oysters with a bacteria that prompted four outbreaks of illness on a cruise ship among people who ate the raw food.
"The rising temperatures of ocean water seem to have contributed to one of the largest known outbreaks of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the United States," says Joseph McLaughlin of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, referring to the bacterium responsible for the outbreak
