The authorities quickly banned the harvesting and sale of oysters from the area, and from two other oyster production sites further north, Calvados and Manche, "until further notice". The reason consumers are shunning French oysters is a health scare that hit the industry last week, when local authorities in the Gironde region observed a wave of gastroenteritis cases due to food poisoning.Īn investigation identified as the culprit the norovirus - a highly contagious virus causing vomiting and diarrhoea - detected in oysters from the Arcachon Bay west of Bordeaux on France's southwestern Atlantic coast.
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