Toxins Food and Water Borne Conditions and Diseases

Toxins in the context of this category are chemicals, plants or their parts, and animal parts that are poisonous to people when ingested in food or water.

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• Bad Bug Book: Mushroom Toxins - Includes toxic substances and their effects, symptoms, diagnosis, descriptions of some poisonous mushrooms, and outbreaks.
  
• Bad Bug Book: Various Shellfish-Associated Toxins - Caused by consuming shellfish that have accumulated dinoflagellate toxins. Features cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
  
• CDC: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning - Includes factsheet and publications.
  
• Harmful Algal Blooms and Biotoxins - Factsheet on algal blooms and their effects on humans through affected fish and shellfish.
  
• American.edu: Blowfish and Trade - Outline and overview of this subject.
  
• Human Illness Associated with Harmful Algae - Discusses the various fish and shellfish toxicities of humans caused by the animal's ingestion of toxic algae.
  
• Food Safety Research Information Office: Ciguatoxin - Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the toxin.
  
• eMedicine - Toxicity, Mushrooms - Article by Mary E Cataletto, MD.
  
• eMedicine - Toxicity, Tetrodotoxin - Article by Theodore Benzer, MD, PhD.
  
• eMedicine Health - Ricin - Consumer health resource center providing information on the symptoms and treatment of ricin poisoning.
  
• Bad Bug Book: Scombrotoxin - Caused by the ingestion of foods that contain high levels of histamine. Includes cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
  
• AmericanMushrooms.com: The Death Cap Mushroom (Amanita phalloides) - Images, description, related mushrooms, and discussion of toxicity.
  
• DBMD - Marine Toxins - Discusses the causes, symptoms, and prevention of several toxins carried by fish and shellfish.
  
• Bad Bug Book: Tetrodotoxin - Pufferfish or Fugu poisoning. Includes cause, symptoms, prognosis, and outbreaks.
  
• What You Should Know About Pfiesteria piscicid - This toxic dinoflagellate can cause symptoms in people exposed to water contaminated by the toxin. Information about the organism and links to technical and other material on this organism.
  
• The Merck Manual: Chemical Food Poisoning - Causes, symptoms, and signs of poisoning caused by eating plants or animals that contain a naturally occurring poison.
  
• Bad Bug Book: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning - Caused by the consumption of subtropical and tropical marine finfish which have accumulated naturally occurring dinoflagellate toxins through their diet. Includes cause, associated fish, symptoms, and outbreaks.
  
• Cyclopeptide-Containing Mushroom Toxicity - Features cause, symptoms, treatment, and possible antidotes.
  
• Ricin Toxin from the Castor Bean Plant - Scientific and medical article on the toxin and its effects.
  
• Poisonous Mushrooms - Description of toxic species and the symptoms their toxins produce.
  
• WHO: Water-related diseases - Cyanobacterial Toxins - Includes cause, effects on people, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention.
  
  

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