| Event name: | MDG-94-001 | |
| Country: | MADAGASCAR | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
Seafood toxins | |
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Event directly affected: |
Other Terrestrial , Humans | |
| Toxicity detected: | Yes | |
| Associated syndrome: | OTHER | |
| Unexplained toxicity: | No | |
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | sardin Herklotsichtys quadrimaculatus | |
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | No | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes | |
| Individuals to contact: | QUOD, Jean-Pascal | |
| Location: | Latitude: -14.906389, Longitude: 50.278889 | |
| General location information: |
Antalaha district, HAB Area code(s): MAD-01 |
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| Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): |
Event Date:1994-01-09 |
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| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Ostreopsis siamensis
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| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
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| Event-related bibliography: | Onuma Y, Satake M, Ukena T, Roux J, Chanteau S, Rasolofonirina N, Ratsimaloto M, Naoki H, Yasumoto T, 1999. Identification of putative palytoxin as the cause of clupeotoxism. Toxicon 37: 55-65. | |
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| Additional information: | Scientists hypothesized that the sardine toxin was not palytoxin itself but was an analog having a similar molecular weight. | |||||||||||
| Economic losses: | unknown | |||||||||||
| Management decision: | unknown | |||||||||||
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