Oregon Mussels Sickened at Least 20 People This Weekend | Eater Portland

"I learned that at least 20 people were sickened after eating recreationally harvested mussels at Short Beach on May 25–26, with some requiring hospitalization for symptoms of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). Health officials are urging anyone who harvested shellfish along the Oregon Coast between the Washington border and Seal Rock State Park to discard it, noting that the biotoxin that causes PSP can survive cooking or freezing. State agencies had already closed mussel harvesting between Seal Rock State Park and Cape Lookout on May 23 after detecting high PSP levels and later extended that closure to the Washington border." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden