About a week after Oregon health officials alerted residents to toxic mussels on the coast, Washingtonians have been informed of the same issue. On Wednesday, the Washington State Department of Health notified residents it had recorded high levels of paralytic poison among the shellfish on the coast.
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Health officials in the Pacific North West are warning residents not to catch and eat shellfish off the coast after they detected unsafe levels of poison in fish that can lead to paralysis and death.