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Heat dome likely primed B C waters for spike in shellfish illnesses: health officials

“Normally, we start seeing illnesses when [sea surface] temperatures go over 14 C,” says BCCDC food safety specialist Lorraine McIntyre. “In some areas, it was over 20 C during that heat dome.” Over the past week and a half, at least 10 people have fallen ill from vibriosis Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast. In Washington state, health officials say an outbreak has led to more than 50 cases, the most ever recorded in the month of July. Symptoms last between three and seven days and can include diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, headache and bloody stool, according to the BCCDC. Infections have been known to spread to other parts of the body and death can but rarely does occur.

Interior Health accounted for 155 of 267 of new COVID-19 cases in B C over three-day weekend period

Elsewhere, there are 185 active cases in Fraser Health, 118 in Vancouver Coastal Health, 32 in Island Health, 14 in Northern Health and four cases in non-residents of Canada, for a total of 695 total active cases. Location data is not expected to be updated by the BC Centre for Disease Control until Wednesday, but the previous week s data, for between July 11 and July 17, showed most cases occurring in the Central Okanagan. The latest data on variants of concern from the province show that 97 per cent of all cases are now caused by variants of concern, which are strains of the virus that are either more transmissible or cause more severe illness.

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