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Oyster Recall Under Way for Terrebonne Parish Harvest Area

Louisiana health officials have closed an oyster harvesting area in Terrebonne Parish they suspect is contaminated with a virus. Fourteen people have gotten sick.

Health officials suspect the contamination was caused by sewage dumped from a boat in the area where the shellfish is harvested. The investigation began when people eating at one New Orleans-area restaurant the weekend of April 28thbecame sick with flu-like symptoms of a norovirus. The illnesses were not life-threatening and no one was hospitalized. A recall is under way of shucked, frozen, breaded and processed oysters, some shipped to Maryland, Texas and Georgia. The harvesting area will be closed for at least three weeks.

 

Eileen is a news reporter and producer for WWNO. She researches, reports and produces the local daily news items. Eileen relocated to New Orleans in 2008 after working as a writer and producer with the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. for seven years.

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