摘要：This issue of Communicable Diseases Intelligencecontains three reports of recent outbreaks of oilydiarrhoea associated with consumption of ocean-fish. In each outbreak, the oily diarrhoea wascaused by indigestible wax esters contained withinthe fish. Common names of fish associated withthese outbreaks included rudderfish, butterfish,oilfish, ruddercod and escolar
