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August 24, 2006 • Outbreaks
August 24, 2006 • Outbreaks
August 24, 2006 • Outbreaks
August 24, 2006 • Salmonella
Brunch victims will get cash
People who were sickened by a Mother’s Day brunch at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Ontario last year will be eligible for between $500 and $50,000 compensation, after a proposed agreement was reached that will avert two class-action lawsuits. The agreement sets out four levels of compensation based on the …
August 24, 2006 • Salmonella
RBG salmonella compensation announced
A compensation agreement has been reached for people who fell ill after eating a catered brunch at the Royal Botanical Gardens on Mother’s Day 2004. If approved by the courts on September 28th, the agreement will provide compensation of 500 dollars for mild cases, up to 50-thousand dollars for the …
August 24, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis outbreak spreads through Somogy County
By: HATC 2006-08-24 Three people infected with the hepatitis A virus have been rushed to Kaposv*r hospital, bringing the overall number treated against the disease to 16. All those affected live in Istv*ndi, Somogy county, where the epidemic broke out two weeks ago. Tests show that a failure to observe …
August 24, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Massive inoculation
August 24, 2006 HUNDREDS of students were yesterday inoculated to prevent an outbreak of hepatitis A at their school after a tuckshop lady tested positive to the virus. A mother who volunteered at St Patrick’s College, Strathfield, on August 11 was diagnosed with the contagious disease on Monday. The State …
August 23, 2006 • Salmonella
Health Department investigates salmonella outbreak
State health officials want to know what caused a salmonella outbreak that sickened more than four dozen people around Indianapolis this summer. Since late May, 56 cases of salmonella were reported in Marion and surrounding counties. Ten of those victims ended up in the hospital. None became seriously ill. Investigators …
August 23, 2006 • Outbreaks
August 23, 2006 • Hepatitis A
New youth vaccines required
The Fairfax County Times By: Kali Schumitz 08/22/2006 State legislators this year added to the list of vaccines that children are required to get in order to go to any school, preschool or daycare in the state. The Fairfax County Health Department is offering free doses of the Tdap vaccine …
August 23, 2006 • Salmonella
Officials Identify Eatery Linked to Salmonellosis
Seven total cases of salmonella were reported in Latah County, according to a release sent out last week by the health department. In response to a public records request from the Lewiston Tribune, the North Central District Health Department issued a release Tuesday saying the restaurant is Ireland’s Inn Cafe …
August 23, 2006 • Hepatitis A
School injections begin to prevent hep A
By Katelyn John August 23, 2006 HEALTH chiefs will investigate a Sydney school tuckshop as a program to inject 300 students to guard against an outbreak of hepatitis A began today. More than 100 students and 15 adults at St Patrick’s College, a private Catholic school in Strathfield, were given …
August 23, 2006 • Salmonella
State looks into Salmonella issue: 56 people have been sickened; source has not been identified
Lynae Granzow, an epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health, was cited as saying that since late May, there have been 56 Salmonella cases reported in Marion County and surrounding areas. That number is much higher than normally expected. Health officials are, according to the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, trying …
August 23, 2006 • Salmonella
Indiana looks into Salmonella issue
Health officials are trying to determine the source of a Salmonella outbreak that’s sickened more than four dozen people in the Indianapolis area this summer. Ten of the 56 people who have been afflicted with Salmonella have been hospitalized, but no one has become seriously ill, she said. Those affected …
August 22, 2006 • Outbreaks
August 22, 2006 • Salmonella
State fighting salmonella outbreak
Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak in the Greenwood area that has sickened at least two dozen people in the last two months, reports the Indianapolis Star. In June and July, 48 cases of salmonella have been reported in Marion and Johnson Counties. That’s about 30 cases more than …
August 22, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A scare hits Sydney school
22.aug.06 Yahoo News http://au.news.yahoo.com/060822/2/108lf.html About 300 students at a Sydney, Australia, school will be given preventative drugs after a tuck shop worker tested positive for hepatitis A. NSW Health was cited as saying a clinic would be set up on Wednesday at St Patrick’s College, a private Catholic school in …
August 22, 2006 • Hepatitis A
New hepatitis A cases bring outbreak total to 12
The Chronicle Herald August 22, 2006 Public health officials have discovered two new cases of hepatitis A connected to an outbreak in Lower Sackville. That brings to 12 the number of people diagnosed with the virus since it first appeared in early June. One of the cases reported Monday is …
August 22, 2006 • Hepatitis A
City of Montreal closes two-thirds of outdoor pools for failing tests
Aug 21, 2006 Canadian Press: ROSS MAROWITS MONTREAL (CP) – A cocktail of bacteria, parasites and viruses in the water of Montreal’s swimming pools has forced the city to close two-thirds of its outdoor facilities. Mayor Gerald Tremblay asked mayors of the city’s 19 boroughs to close 48 of the …
August 21, 2006 • Salmonella
Latham’s checked for salmonella
Latham’s Meat Co., a North Jackson restaurant, voluntarily closed its doors for two days in late July after some 30 to 40 people who claimed to have gotten sick from eating barbecue there tested positive for salmonella, according to the Jackson Sun. Health department officials could not say for sure …
August 18, 2006 • Outbreaks
August 17, 2006 • Salmonella
No. of victims in Moscow food poisoning rises to 300
The Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare, which is investigating the incident, was cited as saying that a total of 301 foreign and Russian construction workers have now been hospitalized in Moscow and its environs with food poisoning. Earlier reports said the workers could have contracted …
August 17, 2006 • Salmonella
Sensitive salmonella detection
A new testing kit for Salmonella promises to give the most sensitive detection results in less than a day, its manufacturers claim. Oxoid claims its DuPont lateral flow system Salmonella test has the ability to detect one colony forming unit of Salmonella in a 25g food sample within 24 hours …
August 17, 2006 • Salmonella
Effects of cell surface charge and hydrophobicity on attachment of 16 Salmonella serovars to cantaloupe rind and decontamination with sanitizers
Adherence of bacteria to cantaloupe rind is favored by surface irregularities such as roughness, crevices, and pits, thus reducing the ability of washing or sanitizer treatments to remove or inactivate attached cells. In a study published in the August issue of the Journal of Food Protection, researchers compared the surface …
August 17, 2006 • Salmonella
Survival of Salmonella enteritidis phage Type 30 on inoculated almonds stored at -20, 4, 23, and 35C
To evaluate the survival of Salmonella on raw almond surfaces, whole almond kernels were inoculated with Salmonella Enteritidis and the results published in the August issue of the Journal of Food Protection. Some inoculated almonds, after a 24-h drying period, were stored for 161 days at 23.3 degrees C. Other …
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