1. Health officials warned people to wash their hands after touching diseased fish and said not to eat diseased fish or swim in waters where they are found. 2. Last week, Washam warned people not to eat the diseased fish or swim in waters where they are found. 3. She has seen it cripple rivers in huge fish kills, raising serious questions about its threat to fishermen and people who eat diseased fish. 4. Symptoms develop in humans when the level of ciguatera builds up in the body from eating too much diseased fish. 5. Volunteers from a U.S. environmental group have spent the last week at remote Lameshur Bay studying ciguatera, an illness contracted by eating diseased fish. |