Tainted fish: some varieties more likely to have toxin On August
6, 2010, a 16-year-old teenage girl and her 47-year-old mother
went to a hospital emergency department with diarrhea, light-
headedness, and pins and needles sensations around their body
after eating barracuda that was purchased at a New York fish
market; hours later, four more family members who had eaten the
fish arrived at the hospital with the same symptoms. About a
year later, four people got the same illness after eating
grouper at a Manhattan restaurant. One was a man who swam two
miles a day before his illness and wound up with severe walking
difficulties for several months afterward. The federal Centers
for Disease Control has received 28 reports of ciguatera fish
poisoning in New Yorkers that occurred from August 2010 to July
2011, according to a report released by the agency on Thursday.
Before that, the CDC received only 21 reports of this fish
poisoning in New York City over the previous decade. Ciguatera
fish poisoning or CFP result