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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists may have been on the trail of the toxic micro-organism Pfiesteria piscicida in the 1980s, but they gave up the chase before they found it. Pfiesteria, a single-cell organism that ...

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… ...