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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIt Happened in Pennsylvania<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The meal was served at a restaurant in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in December 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four adults became ill after eating tuna-spinach salad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their symptoms didn’t all begin at exactly the same second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But they came quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For some, it was only minutes after eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For others, closer to two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That timing would become an important clue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First Came the Mouth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Some of the diners noticed a burning sensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was a metallic taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then their skin began reacting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faces flushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sweating started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headaches appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nausea followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then diarrhea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pattern looked disturbingly familiar to anyone who has seen a serious food allergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except there was a problem with that explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four People Don’t Usually Develop the Same Allergy at Lunch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A tuna allergy is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But allergies belong to the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One diner might react while everyone else finishes the meal without noticing anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here, several people eating the same food became ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That changes the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doctors no longer needed to ask only:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is wrong with this patient?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n They needed to ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n What happened to that fish?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the four diners was taken to an emergency department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The medical team used medications including antihistamines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The symptoms improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other three recovered within hours without being examined by physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That sounds reassuring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the speed with which everything happened made the episode difficult to dismiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Something in the tuna was acting fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And investigators still had some of the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Investigators collected a remaining sample.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They tested it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What they found explained the strange cluster of symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tuna contained elevated histamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not the histamine produced by one person’s immune system during an allergic reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine already present inside the fish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The diners had effectively eaten a large dose of a chemical their bodies normally produce during allergic reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No wonder it felt like an allergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s called scombroid poisoning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You’ll also see it called histamine fish poisoning or scombrotoxin fish poisoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The name comes from the historical association with fish in the Scombridae family, including tuna and mackerel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the name is misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other fish can cause it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mahi-mahi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sardines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anchovies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Herring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amberjack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bluefish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And several others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The real requirement isn’t the family name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certain fish naturally contain high levels of an amino acid called histidine in their muscle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histidine isn’t the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s a normal component of proteins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The trouble begins after the fish dies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the fish isn’t chilled properly, certain bacteria can multiply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those bacteria possess enzymes capable of turning histidine into something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most people know histamine from allergies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pollen enters your nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your immune system reacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine contributes to itching, swelling, redness, runny nose and other familiar symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s why antihistamines exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now imagine skipping the immune-system step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of your own cells releasing histamine, you swallow a large amount already sitting inside a piece of fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The body can respond in eerily similar ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Flushing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Itching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A racing heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nausea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diarrhea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Burning around the mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes low blood pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes breathing problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meal can make a perfectly non-allergic person look as though they’re having an allergic reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the detail that makes scombroid poisoning so unnerving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People rely on their senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If fish is dangerous, surely it will stink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surely the flesh will be slimy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surely the color will be obviously wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not necessarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tuna investigated in the Pennsylvania outbreak had been described as having good physical appearance when delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It looked like food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s what everyone expected it to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scombroid-contaminated fish can occasionally have an unusual taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peppery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sharp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Metallic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One older CDC outbreak investigation found diners describing implicated mahi-mahi as strangely “hot” or spicy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But even that isn’t reliable enough to protect you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some contaminated fish may taste completely normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And seasoning can blur the clues even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A peppery piece of grilled tuna in a restaurant is hardly going to make everyone immediately think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine poisoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The transformation depends heavily on bacteria and temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a fish is caught, refrigeration becomes critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If certain histamine-forming fish spend too much time warm, bacteria get an opportunity to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their enzymes convert naturally occurring histidine into histamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The longer favorable conditions persist, the more can accumulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And once enough has formed, you have a problem that refrigeration can no longer reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cold prevents the next stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It doesn’t erase the previous one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is where scombroid poisoning breaks another familiar food-safety rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Freezing does not remove histamine once it has formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can freeze contaminated fish solid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thaw it later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The histamine remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then cook it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s an even worse surprise waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grill the tuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bake it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smoke it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cook it until there isn’t a hint of raw flesh left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine is heat-stable enough to survive normal food preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bacteria may die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chemical they already produced remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The food can therefore be thoroughly cooked and still cause illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Think about how unsettling that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heat is the thing we trust to make questionable food safer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this particular problem, heat arrives after the damage has already been done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The person who cooks the fish may have done everything correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The restaurant may refrigerate it properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The diner may eat it immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And people can still become sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because temperature abuse might have occurred before the restaurant ever received it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the fishing vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the dock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While thawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At some other point in a long supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The poison is created by a mistake in the fish’s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You eat the evidence later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pennsylvania tuna didn’t simply appear in the restaurant refrigerator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Investigators traced it backward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It came from a yellowfin tuna caught commercially in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fish moved through a chain involving multiple processors and transporters before reaching the restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At several documented points, temperatures looked appropriately cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That made the investigation more frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Somewhere between ocean and plate, conditions had allowed enough histamine to form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pinpointing exactly when wasn’t simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A single fish can change hands repeatedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Processor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wholesaler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supplier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every stage inherits the consequences of what happened before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A restaurant can make perfect grill marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It can’t grill history out of the meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That is why seafood refrigeration begins almost immediately after the fish is caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The clock matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pennsylvania case wasn’t unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1988, eight people at a private club in Chicago developed scombroid poisoning after a buffet lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Five were patrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three were employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most had eaten mahi-mahi with dill sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One hadn’t even eaten the fish itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That person had eaten sauce scraped from the pan that held the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That was enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the toxin were confined neatly inside an untouched piece of fish, perhaps avoiding the flesh would have been enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the serving juices and sauce had been in contact with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine isn’t something you can necessarily remove by scraping off one suspicious section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Chicago investigation, multiple people described the fish as unusually spicy or hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About 90 minutes later, symptoms including flushing, headache, nausea, dizziness and diarrhea appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dinner had become an outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That same year, health officials investigated another cluster in Charleston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yellowfin tuna was implicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fish had been kept chilled at the restaurants before being broiled and served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Again, cooking didn’t save anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The critical mistake had probably occurred earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pattern kept repeating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Normal-looking fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Proper cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sudden allergy-like illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then the discovery of histamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn’t merely an old food-safety problem that disappeared with better refrigerators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A CDC analysis published in 2026 reviewed marine-toxin outbreaks reported in the United States from 2009 through 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scombroid toxin accounted for 192 reported outbreaks and 597 illnesses in that dataset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most of the outbreaks with an identified food source involved tuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than half of the outbreaks with a known single preparation location were associated with sit-down restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem survives because all it takes is one break in temperature control somewhere along the chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tuna is eaten in countless forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Salads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sushi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sandwiches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Canned products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A tuna steak can arrive beautifully red and be cooked perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That visual quality tells you surprisingly little about whether histamine accumulated earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You cannot see histamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You cannot reliably smell it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And kitchen heat doesn’t make it vanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The important work happened before cooking ever began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine isn’t necessarily distributed evenly throughout an entire fish or batch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One portion may contain more than another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People also eat different quantities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Individual sensitivity can vary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That can create confusing outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One person becomes intensely ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Someone beside them experiences only mild flushing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another person notices almost nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The uneven pattern can initially make a shared food seem less suspicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until more people start reporting the same strange symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many common foodborne infections take considerably longer to cause illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bacteria must survive digestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes multiply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes produce toxins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Symptoms may appear many hours or even days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scombroid poisoning can move much faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Symptoms commonly begin within minutes to an hour or two after eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One minute you’re finishing tuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not long afterward, your face feels hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your heart starts pounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your mouth burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That short interval is one reason the condition is so often mistaken for allergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in severe cases, that possibility has to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some scombroid reactions can include wheezing, swelling, low blood pressure or other symptoms that overlap with dangerous allergic reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A person at home cannot always reliably distinguish one from the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That isn’t the time for an internet diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Severe breathing difficulty, fainting, significant swelling or cardiovascular symptoms require urgent medical attention regardless of the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doctors can sort out the mystery after the immediate danger is addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Did anyone else eat the fish?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine two friends arriving at an emergency department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both have red faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both complain of pounding headaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both feel their hearts racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both ate the same tuna less than an hour earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neither has a history of fish allergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now the picture looks different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two people can share contaminated food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They don’t suddenly develop the same new immune-system allergy at exactly the same meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because histamine is central to the syndrome, antihistamine medications are often used for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many patients improve rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most cases are self-limited and resolve within hours, although symptoms can occasionally persist longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Severe cases are much less common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That sounds almost anticlimactic compared with the sudden onset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But that’s part of what makes the illness strange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A person can go from a normal dinner to feeling dramatically ill and back toward normal within the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fish has already delivered its dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The body has to clear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Scombroid” sounds like a bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It isn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It sounds like a parasite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It isn’t that either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s a poisoning syndrome named after fish historically associated with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No infectious organism needs to establish itself inside you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bacteria did their important work before you ate the meal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They transformed histidine in the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You swallowed what was left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s closer to chemical intoxication than an infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s another uncomfortable thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We tend to imagine spoilage as decomposition we can observe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The smell becomes worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The texture breaks down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Color changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But chemistry can change before the food reaches that dramatic stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine-forming bacteria don’t need the fish to look horrifying before they matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time plus warmth can be enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The danger begins while the fish still looks like dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seafood professionals talk about the “cold chain.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s exactly what it sounds like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the moment a vulnerable fish is caught, it needs to stay cold through handling, processing, transport and storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Break the chain and bacterial activity can increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Restore refrigeration later and bacterial growth may slow again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But any histamine already formed doesn’t politely disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The mistake becomes permanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The thermometer can return to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fish cannot return to the state it was in before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s no trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No lemon juice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No soaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No extra-hot grill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No rinse under the tap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No freezing overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No removing the skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once high levels of histamine exist in the flesh, normal kitchen methods can’t reliably make the fish safe again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prevention has to happen earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s why food regulators focus so heavily on time and temperature control rather than telling consumers how to “detox” suspicious fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If fish tastes unusually peppery, metallic, burning or simply wrong, stop eating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That doesn’t mean every spicy-tasting tuna steak contains histamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seasoning exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So do naturally strong flavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But an unexplained sharp or peppery sensation\u2014especially if diners begin flushing or developing headaches shortly afterward\u2014deserves attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t keep eating because the fish was expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t assume the grill will have sterilized every possible problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And don’t let a beautiful plate overrule what your mouth is telling you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s the final twist in cases like Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The patients looked allergic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The symptoms behaved like allergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Antihistamines helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet the diners’ immune systems weren’t independently deciding tuna was suddenly an enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The reaction had effectively arrived preloaded in the food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Histamine had accumulated inside the fish before anyone ordered lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The diners merely swallowed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We like food dangers with obvious villains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Raw chicken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bulging cans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rotten smells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Things we can recognize and avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scombroid poisoning isn’t courteous enough to look dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tuna may be perfectly seared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The center may be beautifully pink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plate may come from an excellent restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first warning might not arrive until the fish is already in your mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A metallic taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A strange burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then heat spreading across your face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Someone at the table asks why you’re suddenly red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another person says their head hurts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A third reaches for water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that’s when everyone begins looking back at the same plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [IMAGE SUGGESTION: Absolute photorealistic final editorial image, elegant restaurant table with half-eaten seared tuna in foreground, three diners in background exchanging alarmed looks as one face appears flushed and another person grips a glass of water, meal still visually appetizing, cinematic low restaurant lighting, realistic expressions, quiet dread rather than exaggerated horror, no text, 16:9.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s the part worth remembering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tuna didn’t swim through the ocean filled with enough histamine to poison diners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conditions came later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After it was caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After normal biology met bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After time and temperature allowed one harmless amino acid to become something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the time the fish reached the plate, the mistake may have happened days 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The Fish Went to a Laboratory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Condition Has a Strange Name<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Fish Starts With Something Completely Normal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
And Histamine Is Where the Nightmare Begins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Fish Doesn’t Have to Look Spoiled<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes There Is a Taste<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Fish Isn’t Actually Producing Histamine by Itself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So Put It in the Freezer?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Cooking Doesn’t Destroy It Either<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Dangerous Moment May Have Happened Hours or Days Earlier<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Investigators Tried to Follow That History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Tuna Had Traveled a Long Way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In Another Outbreak, Eight People Became Sick<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Sauce Was a Clue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There Were More Cases in South Carolina<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Decades Later, It Still Happens<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Tuna Is Particularly Good at Hiding the Problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Then Why Doesn’t Everyone Get Sick?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Speed Is Another Clue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
You May Think You’re Having Anaphylaxis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
But There’s One Question That Can Change Everything<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Antihistamines Can Work Quickly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Name Causes Confusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Fish Can Be Dead While the Chemistry Keeps Changing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This Is Why the Cold Chain Matters So Much<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
You Can’t Fix It at Home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThere May Be One Warning at the Table<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Restaurant Didn’t Cause an Allergy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Which Makes the First Bite Much More Disturbing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Fish Wasn’t Dangerous When It Was Alive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n