Talk:Ciguatera

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Should this be merged with Ciguatera_fish_poisoning? startaq 00:53, 2005 May 22 (UTC)

FYI ... this was mentioned on the House episode April 10, 2007. Pgrote 03:48, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Also mentioned on Slashdot today at http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/14/0232228 68.229.115.137 14:32, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

It also turned up in the news in Feb 2008: Several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning have been confirmed... The first case in this report appears to have been Nov 2007. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Confusing

Could some please clarify what the cause of this disease is. The first line states that the cause is ingesting a toxin (Ciguatoxin), but the article goes on to say that the disease can be tramsitted sexually and can persist for up to 20 years (both of these would usually imply that the disease is pathogenic). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Holshy (talk • contribs) 14:53, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Does it make more sense now? What's transmitted through body fluids is just the toxin itself. I believe that the long-term effects are due to the damage that it does, not because individual toxin molecules persist in the body for 20 years. (If, for example, it killed a nerve cell, you would expect that damage to be permanent, even if the nerve-cell-killing toxin went away the next day.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)