Can bad scallops make you sick?
Chef's answer
How do people get sick? Vibrio infections often begin when people eat raw or undercooked seafood: oysters, mussels, clams and scallops, or seafood that was harvested from contaminated water. It usually takes one day to three days to get sick after Vibrio enters the body.
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Read the label carefully to make sure the dough is meant to be eaten without baking or cooking. Eating uncooked flour or raw eggs can make you sick. Don't taste or eat raw dough or batter!.
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Eating raw or undercooked seafood, especially clams, mollusks, oysters and scallops can be dangerous. ... If infected seafood is eaten raw or undercooked, you ingest bacteria with each bite of your dinner. If you think you have shellfish poisoning, contact your local health department..
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Eating raw or undercooked seafood, especially clams, mollusks, oysters and scallops can be dangerous. ... If infected seafood is eaten raw or undercooked, you ingest bacteria with each bite of your dinner. If you think you have shellfish poisoning, contact your local health department..
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If you want to make sure to avoid bacteria that can make you sick (or even kill you), then you should not order that burger medium rare. ... An E.
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In people, consumption of domoic acid causes nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps shortly after eating tainted shellfish. Within 48 hours this can develop into headache, dizziness, confusion, motor weakness, and in severe cases, short-term memory loss, coma, and death.
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Eating raw or undercooked seafood, especially clams, mollusks, oysters and scallops can be dangerous. ... The bacteria they ingest are often harmless to the shellfish but can be dangerous to people who eat the infected seafood. One common type of bacteria found in undercooked seafood is Vibrio parahaemolyticus..
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Basically, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if you eat fish that is either raw or undercooked, you open yourself up to the risk of being infected by a tapeworm, including the intestinally invasive Japanese broad tapeworm (aka Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense).
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