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What is botulism?
Why does Alaska have more botulism?
What are the symptoms?
What causes botulism?
Who can get botulism?
What treatment is available?
How can you protect your family from getting botulism?
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A Helping Hand:  Keeping  your family safe from botulism

Botulism is a serious disease caused by one of the deadliest poisons there is. Botulism occurs all over the world, but it occurs more often in Alaska than anywhere else in the United States. 

This Web site is based on the videotape "A Helping Hand: Keeping Your Family Safe from Botulism."  It is designed to provide information to people who eat or prepare Alaska Native fermented foods, such as fermented fish heads, beaver tail, or seal flipper.  You will find the answers to the following questions:

What is botulism? Why does Alaska have more botulism? What are the symptoms? What causes botulism? Who can get botulism? What treatment is available? How can you protect your family from getting botulism? Graphic of lising contents
 

This Web site was developed for
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Arctic Investigations Program
 in partnership with
the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation.

It was produced by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Public Health Practice Program Office
Division of Media and Training Services 
as part of the Public Health Training Network.

Revised 7/31/2000

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