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March 23, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Three elementary school students test positive for hepatitis A
March 23, 2006 WLEX-TV (KY) The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department has confirmed that three students at a Lexington elementary school have tested positive for Hepatitis A, but also say there is no cause for alarm. The students, a second-grader and two kindergartners, attend Mary Todd Elementary. Officials say the two …
March 22, 2006 • Salmonella
Americans Eating Less Risky Foods
The number of Americans eating risky foods like undercooked ground beef, raw fish, oysters and runny eggs dropped by a third over a four-year period, reports All Headline News. The survey led researchers to conclude that media reporting and public health education efforts on risky eating habits and food-borne illnesses …
March 22, 2006 • Salmonella
Health Tip: Salmonella Can Make You Sick
Salmonella is a microscopic bacterium that lives in the intestinal tracts of animals and people. An infection, usually transmitted by contaminated food, can make you quite sick. Many raw foods contain salmonella, including uncooked chicken and other forms of poultry. But the good news is that proper cooking usually kills …
March 21, 2006 • Salmonella
Restaurant advised over its ‘food safety’
A restaurant run by one of the area’s top chefs has been given advice over food safety after a major salmonella scare involving a funeral buffet. Two elderly guests who ate the buffet at The Bridge in Fenny Stratford ended up in hospital and another two guests were unwell. One …
March 21, 2006 • Hepatitis A
It’s a wash
March 20, 2006 Beaver County Times (PA) Robyn Russo Beaver Valley Mall in Penn. Is, according to this story, believed to be the center of America’s largest hepatitis A outbreak. In the fall of 2003, tainted green onions used in the mall’s Chi Chi’s restaurant sickened about 650 people, killing …
March 20, 2006 • Outbreaks
March 20, 2006 • Outbreaks
March 20, 2006 • Outbreaks
March 20, 2006 • Outbreaks
March 17, 2006 • Press Releases
Motion for Certification of Class Action Lawsuit to be Heard in Spraypark Case
Attorneys from Marler Clark, Underberg & Kessler, and Dreyer Boyajian will appear before the State of New York Court of Claims in Syracuse on Monday, March 20th, at 10:00 am to argue a motion in favor of the certification of a class action lawsuit against the State of New York …
March 17, 2006 • Salmonella
Sanitized cantaloupes are susceptible to Salmonella recontamination
Sanitized cantaloupes have been found to still be susceptible to Salmonella recontamination. Research was undertaken to determine the effects of sanitizer and hot water treatments on microbial populations on cantaloupe surfaces and to determine whether prior decontamination of melons by sanitizer treatment affects vulnerability to recontamination by Salmonella. The results …
March 17, 2006 • Outbreaks
March 17, 2006 • Outbreaks
Seattle Central Community College (2006)
Drew Falkenstein presented on food safety and legal liability for foodborne illness outbreaks for the Seattle Culinary Academy of Seattle Central Community College. …
March 16, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Health department to seek mutual-aid system
By Kaitlin Melanson/ kmelanso@cnc.com Thursday, March 16, 2006 In order to be fully prepared for the unpredictable, the Marblehead Health Department is seeking a little help from its neighbors. Among the articles gracing this year’s warrant is one sponsored by the Board of Health, which seeks to set up a …
March 15, 2006 • Salmonella
Salmonella caught red-handed
Infection biologists and proteomics researchers have now identified all the proteins involved in Salmonella metabolic paths during an infection. Dirk Bumann of Hannover Medical School led a team including Daniel Becker, Claudia Rollenhagen, Matthias Ballmaier and Thomas Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. They isolated Salmonella from …
March 15, 2006 • Hepatitis A
What is Hepatitis A?
Hepatitis A is one of five human hepatitis viruses that primarily infect the human liver and cause human illness. (There are many other viruses that can inflame the liver which infect us more generally.) The other known human hepatitis viruses are hepatitis B, C, D, and E. Hepatitis A is …
March 14, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Heading to a Restaurant? Let’s Be Careful Out There
With more and more Americans eating out than ever before, diners need to keep their minds on safety and look for telltale indicators of poor hygiene at restaurants. By Gary White The Ledger Barbara Whitman’s 63rd birthday was unforgettable — and not in a good way. Whitman’s two sisters took …
March 14, 2006 • Outbreaks
March 13, 2006 • Salmonella
Misperception prompts U.S. meat recall
Serenade Foods has recalled approximately 75,600 pounds of frozen stuffed raw chicken entrees. Because of the product’s frozen state, the product label, and cooked appearance of the product, consumers may incorrectly assume that these products are cooked, according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. FSIS said the stuffed entrees …
March 13, 2006 • Salmonella
Maker recalls chicken entrees
Serenade Foods of Milford Illinois is recalling about 75,800 pounds of frozen stuffed chicken entrees sold under the Maple Leaf Farms name. The products were contaminated with a type of Salmonella often associated with chicken. According to the USDA, the raw chicken entrees, which appear cooked, may have caused some …
March 13, 2006 • Hepatitis A
How is Hepatitis A transmitted?
Hepatitis A is a communicable (or contagious) disease that spreads from person to person. It is transmitted by the “fecal — oral route.” This does not mean, or course, that Hepatitis A transmission requires that fecal material from an infectious individual must come in contact directly with the mouth of …
March 10, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis outbreak at school ; Four children hit by liver virus
March 10, 2006 My.accenture.com Jane Woodhead Source: Liverpool Echo (UK) A hepatitis outbreak has struck down four children at a Merseyside school and five staff members have also been hit by the liver virus at Lander Road primary in Litherland. All 215 pupils and staff will receive injections and give …
March 10, 2006 • Salmonella
Salmonella – FSIS Aims to Reduce Incidence
FSIS is aiming to reduce the presence of Salmonella in raw meat and poultry products. The initiative will include concentrating resources at establishments with higher levels of Salmonella and changes to the reporting and utilization of FSIS Salmonella verification test results. The effort is patterned after the highly successful FSIS …
March 10, 2006 • Salmonella
Structural study shows how bacteria select their most virulent proteins
Salmonella poisoning, dysentery, the plague, typhoid fever, and a number of other serious ailments are caused by a diverse group of bacterial pathogens that have one thing in common: They all use the same syringe-like system to infect their hosts. Known as a "type III secretion system," this trait allows …
March 10, 2006 • Listeria
FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of Classic Delight Egg Salad on Vienna Bread Sandwiches That Pose Potentially Fatal Health Risk
Date Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 Classic Delight, Inc. of St. Marys, Ohio, is recalling ìEgg Salad on Vienna Bread, Pilot good to go” sandwiches because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly …
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