ATLANTA, July 23 (UPI) — U.S. health officials said Monday a multistate outbreak of human salmonella infections has been linked to live poultry. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said a total of 37 people were infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Hadar in 11 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Thirty-seven percent of people ill were children age 10 or younger. Read article
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BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhua) — The Ministry of Health on Friday issued a notice to ban the sale of Nassariidae, a kind of small mud snail that have reportedly caused people to faint and vomit after eating them. The snail mostly inhabits the southeastern coastal areas including Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces. After eating them, […]
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ECDC is enhancing its surveillance activities for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. ECDC is watching for any infectious disease health events that could present a public health threat and as of Friday 20 July, a summary of relevant health events will be included in the weekly Communicable Disease Threat Report (CDTR), published on […]
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Health authorities say the students fell ill after eating three-day-old boiled eggs tainted with salmonella bacteria. Dr Pornthep Siriwanarangsan, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said Chiang Mai Welfare School students became sick after eating donated eggs that were boiled three days previously and not reheated before they were consumed, allowing the bacteria to develop. […]
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Douglas Pakati said it was the duty of the veterinary services department to monitor disease outbreaks and determine the cause of death.“I am not aware of this mysterious disease that is reported to be in or around Gutu. But it is not advisable to consume meat from livestock that have died in unclear circumstances,” said […]
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A 28-year-old Swedish man has died after eating at a local restaurant on the Indonesian tourist island of Gili Trawangan, only a year after another Swede died of methanol poisoning. The man, who is reported by Aftonbladet to be from western Sweden, died on Wednesday after having had dinner with his girlfriend. “The cause of […]
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VIET NAM – Porcine Reproductive & Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), also known as ‘blue ear disease’, is on an upward trend; as a result, more and more people are contracting a bacterium virus called ‘Streptococcus Suis’ from pigs in North Vietnam. The Central Tropical Disease Hospital has admitted more than 20 people infected with the above […]
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Two Canadian sisters found dead in their hotel room on a popular Thai resort island may have been the victims of “serious food poisoning,” police said Sunday. The bodies of Audrey and Noemi Belanger, aged 20 and 26, were found Friday by hotel staff on Phi Phi island in the Andaman Sea, 800 kilometers (500 […]
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A cluster of E. coli cases was being investigated Wednesday in the metro Atlanta area as health officials in several Southern states looked at similar cases, including at least one death. The Georgia Department of Public Health on Wednesday confirmed the region has five confirmed cases of a strain of E. coli infection known as […]
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There have been 267 cases of the bug since May 11 across four areas of England, more than double the normal rate. The parasite Cryptosporidium is normally associated with contained swimming pools, lakes and salad foods but no source has yet been identified in this outbreak. Read article
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