Eating Shellfish Could Give You Amnesia

It might be hard to believe, but "amnesiac shellfish poisoning" is a real affliction that could happen if you eat the wrong oyster. It happens to people when we eat shellfish, but the condition springs from much lower on the food chain...

Kim Horcher discusses with Christina Ochoa (Science Educator, host of KnowBrainer) and Phil Torres (Entomologist, host of AJ TechKnow)!

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[GeoDelGonzo]

I woke up in my old apartment one time and I had no idea where I was or who I was for a min, just a min. This brief moment of amnesia felt refreshing. This was only explainable by me living in a building full of smokers and being really exhausted.

[abuafak]

Damn! Have some sympathy. If I see some sea birds/mammals acting weirdly and I suspect shellfish toxicity, my first thought would be: "Maybe I should hang around and make sure this animal is safe until its symptoms subside"

[McCaffery]

I'll have an order of oysters please, I got some things I'd rather forget.

[lstrins]

I've ever experienced food poisoning from shellfish. After I watch this apparently I was lucky I only throwed up and got diarrhea for several days. Since then I never eat shellfish because my body is haunted by the trauma so everytime I see them I feel like vomiting

[SadisticSenpai]

I love shellfish, but in my corner of the country it has to be frozen and trucked to us so yeah... I don't eat it very often and it's never fresh, not to mention expensive.

[WeaponOfMyDestructio]

dunno is its true can't remember the last time i ate shellfish

[culobandoolo]

But for some reason it can't get you an eternity of suffering, I guess Christians like their crawdads too much to focus on that one.

[americanino]

Our oceans are becoming so toxic I think we'll end up seeing a lot more of these types of strange reactions in the future.  This is really going to hurt nations that depend on on seafood as a main staple of their diet.  Glad I prefer fowl.

[oliviamcneil]

As if I wasn't scared enough to eat shellfish already!

[KnightsAndDarths]

I could live on just seafood, I love it.