(Reuters) – Ten people have now fallen sick from contaminated beef products from a Canadian plant that sent its meat across Canada and the United States, more than twice the number earlier reported, health officials said on Saturday.
The latest cases, linked to one of Canada’s largest-ever meat recalls, include three more illnesses in Alberta, where the giant XL Foods beef processing plant is located, two in Quebec and one in Newfoundland and Labrador. Read article
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The potential scope of the meningitis outbreak that has killed at least five people widened dramatically Thursday as health officials warned that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients who got steroid back injections in 23 states could be at risk. Clinics and medical centers rushed to contact patients who may have received the apparently fungus-contaminated shots. […]
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ST. JOHN’S, NL, Sept. 27, 2012 /CNW/ – Security screeners serving Atlantic Canada airports are voting on potential strike action after their employer demanded concessions at the bargaining table. Negotiations broke down late Wednesday between the airport screeners – members of the United Steelworkers (USW) – and multinational security giant Securitas. Read article
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ASHMORE, Ill. — The elementary school in the central Illinois community of Ashmore was closed after half its 100 students failed to show up. Community Unit School District No. 1 Superintendent Jim Littleford said Wednesday that in addition to 51 students, five of the school’s staff also reported a flu-like illness. Read article
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) – The Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services have identified an increase in the number of positive Shiga toxin E. coli cases across the Southeast region. Read article
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FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — An outbreak of syphilis cases among young people is alarming health officials in Johnson County. Dr. Craig Moorman, the Johnson County health officer, says the county has 25 confirmed or suspected cases of the disease. He tells the Daily Journal ( ) that most of those infected are in their mid-teens […]
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PRINEVILLE, OR (KPTV) – New lab results show a second person became infected with the plague in June after being bitten by a sick cat, health officials in Oregon said Friday. The woman was bitten around the same time as a Prineville man who became ill with the plague in June. He had tried to […]
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An Irish tourist has been arrested for attempting to rob baked goods at knifepoint. The 25-year-old, Robert McTernan, from Newbridge, County Kildare, had just landed in Boston for a two-week holiday when the incident took place.
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A picket by striking airport workers stretched through a third day with no progress in contract talks — in fact, no negotiations. “The way the process works, if the mediator thinks we should go back to the table, he’ll inform us, but he went back a couple of days ago to Fredericton, so there’s no […]
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A man in his 60s from southeastern Massachusetts is the fourth Massachusetts resident to be infected with Eastern equine encephalitis and is currently hospitalized. The case in a Plymouth County resident triggered state public health officials to raise the threat level for the mosquito-borne illness to “high” in the southeastern communities of Duxbury, Marshfield, Norwell, […]
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