Our friends are off to China and Indonesia at the end of the week (start of summer holidays) so we’re having them over for dinner tomorrow, where I’ll offer up a seafood pasta (I simply cannot compete with Susan’s stir-fry and other Chinese dishes).

But with the holiday season approaching, there will – like no raw egg dishes — be no raw shellfish served in this house.

The Taiwan CDC reports 30 indigenous cases of Hepatitis A from Oct. to Nov. 2014, in which more than 80 percent of the patients required hospitalization for their illness.

According to the epidemiological investigation, most patients consumed raw bivalves such as oyster and clams during the disease incubation period.

This has prompted the Taiwan CDC to remind the public to pay attention to personal dietary hygiene and consume only thoroughly cooked bivalves.

Bivalves such as oysters and clams concentrate the pathogens that are present in harvest waters.