Earlier this year, temperatures throughout much of the Pacific Northwest rose to dangerous highs, a surge that killed hundreds, including an Oregon farmworker. In the coastal waters off of Washington and British Columbia, mussels died by the hundreds, shells open, still attached to the rocks. And in the typically cool waters, home to some of the Pacific Northwest’s most coveted oysters, water temperatures climbed just high enough to allow vibrio bacteria to grow and multiply. As oysters sucked in the warm waters around them, the vibrio found a new home inside the mollusks’ shells, eventually sliding down the throats of hundreds of people throughout the Pacific Northwest — and
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