Well, this figures. Because stealth omicron and our collective mental health disaster cascade aren’t quite enough for us to deal with right now, norovirus has decided to insert itself into the local wellness conversation. Fun.
On April 1, the Department of Health announced that 26 Washingtonians had fallen ill with the virus after eating raw oysters harvested from the Baynes Sound area of British Columbia. The Centers for Disease Control has also linked the local bivalves to a nationwide norovirus outbreak, affecting 103 people so far in states ranging from California to Florida.
For now, shellfish wholesalers and retailers have been asked to throw away any British Columbia oysters
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