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About a week after Oregon health officials alerted residents to toxic mussels on the coast, Washingtonians have been informed of the same issue. On Wednesday, the Washington State Department of Health notified residents it had recorded high levels of paralytic poison among the shellfish on the coast.
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The survey results will help investigators determine the source of the outbreak and how many people were affected.
Two state agencies warn that mussels, razor clams and bay clams collected on the coast have high levels of the marine biotoxins for paralytic shellfish poison.
If you harvested mussels from the coast in Clatsop or Tillamook counties this weekend, health officials say you should throw them out.The Oregon Health Authorit