Notes from the Field: Botulism Type E After Consumption of Salt-Cured Fish - New Jersey, 2018

Published on November 7, 2019

An emergency department in New Jersey treated two patients for suspected foodborne botulism associated with eating uneviscerated salt-cured fish.

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