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Toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning blamed for Alaska seal deaths

Posted 7/14/25

For the first time, scientists have made a definite link between the toxin produced by algae that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning and marine mammal deaths. Fur seals found dead last August on Alaska’s St. Paul Island had significant levels of saxitoxin in their bodies, as did several of the dead fish around them. It was […]

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