Millions of people in Bangladesh are exposed to high concentration of the toxic element arsenic (As) through drinking water and consumption of foods. It has also been reported that Bangladeshis have a low intake of the essential element selenium (Se), which is known to be important as an antioxidant and has been suggested to counteract the toxicity of As. We report here on total intake of As an...

Despite different approaches used to assign the risk scores for missing information in productivity susceptibility analysis (PSA)—a widely semi-quantitative assessment tool target and non-target fisheries stocks—for selected attributes of a given species, no formal comparison has been made between scoring terms how well they can predict species vulnerability. The present study evaluated PSA fin...

Fish have been considered natural reservoirs of Vibrio cholerae, the deadly diarrheal pathogen. However, little is known about the role of fish in the transmission of V. cholerae from the Bay of Bengal to the households of rural and urban Bangladesh. This study analyzes the incidence and pathogenic potential of V. cholerae in Hilsha (Tenualosa ilisha), a commonly caught and consumed fish that e...