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30 April 2017 / Alaska Dispatch News / Erin McKittrick
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When Alaska shellfish turns deadly

Seldovia, Alaska, United States

No one really knows why algae put so much effort into making poisons. Alexandrium makes saxitoxin, and causes PSP. Another algae called Pseudo-nitzschia produces domoic acid, the source of amnesiac shellfish poisoning.


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