Scientists called it Pfiesteria piscicida — the second word being Latin for “fish killer.” Headline writers called it the “cell from hell.” The outbreak killed uncountable numbers of ...

Marion East, a retired waterman, recalls the “tingling sensation” he felt when he pulled fish out of the Pocomoke River 20 years ago this summer. “When you put your hands in the w… ...

Marion East, a retired waterman, recalls the “tingling sensation” he felt when he pulled fish out of the Pocomoke River 20 years ago this summer.

(Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL - Coastal fish kills and a potential threat to public health previously linked to the single-celled marine creature Pfiesteria piscicida may be a case of mistaken identity.

Pfiesteria is believed to be responsible for ... with our team about how to handle this and they had a very acute outbreak where people were getting sick on day to day, week to week basis.

Study Methods, Strains Of Pfiesteria Are Both Critical In Determining Organism’s Toxicity, Researchers Show Date: February 24, 2005 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: To gauge the ...

To gauge the toxicity of Pfiesteria, the important single-celled fish predator that was the culprit behind a number of fish kills and fish diseases along the East Coast in the 1990s, researchers ...

The notorious Pfiesteria microbes, implicated in gory fish kills and human illness along the mid-Atlantic U.S. coast, have turned up in Norway. Research teams have found Pfiesteria in far-flung ...

It took off when Pfiesteria bloomed in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay that summer. People believed to be exposed there suffered memory loss and other problems. Environmentalists heralded her as a hero.

Arguments have taken a strange turn over how to isolate toxins from the Pfiesteria microbes accused of killing fish by the millions and threatening human health. Two research teams now say that in ...

WASHINGTON -- Two teams of researchers say they cannot confirm the claims of a decade- old study that indicated that pfiesteria, a parasitic algae that plagues Eastern coastal waters, can make a ...