The Food and Drug Administration advised restaurants against serving or selling oysters due to a norovirus outbreak, marking the agency’s fourth warning about the shellfish in less than a month.

The FDA has issued an urgent recall for shellstock oysters harvested last month in Washington state's Hammersley Inlet.

Both recalls cited potential contamination with norovirus. The recall did not mention any reported illnesses connected to the oysters and clams. Shellfish can absorb untreated human sewage ...

Six generations ago, Europe's seas possessed vast oyster reefs. Oysters were found in their millions, clustered together in reef systems that spanned hundreds of square kilometers. Now the reefs ...

What many people think of as the “stomach flu” has nothing to do with influenza – norovirus is an illness ... running water can lower it. Raw oysters are especially dangerous.

In 2022, a multistate outbreak in the US was linked to raw oysters harvested from Texas waters. In 2023, several norovirus outbreaks in Europe were traced to oysters. A senior scientist at at the ...

Eric Risberg / AP The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recalling oysters harvested from Puget Sound in December, citing possible norovirus contamination. It’s one of several recalls to ...

The oysters were distributed in Washington and Oregon, according to the FDA, and “may have been distributed to other states.” The recall was issued over a national surge in norovirus cases ...

Norovirus is back and hitting hard. More than 80 people got sick after eating oysters at a Los Angeles County event in early December. Passengers on back-to-back cruises on Cunard's Queen Mary 2 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to restaurants and retailers about selling oysters harvested from a part of Washington state due to a norovirus outbreak. Washington state is ...