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8.3.5 Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning
Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning [NSP] has been described in people who consumed bivalves that have been exposed to red tides of the dinoflagellate [Phycodiscus breve]. The disease has been limited to the Gulf of Mexico and areas of Florida. Brevetoxins are highly lethal to fish and red tides of this dinoflagellate is also associated with massive fish kills. The symptoms of NSP resembles PSP except that paralysis does not occur, NSP is seldom fatal.
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