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September 24, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Alert targets 26,000 at Expo
Gaming conference worker infected with hepatitis A By PAUL HARASIM REVIEW-JOURNAL Dr. Lawrence Sands, director of community health for the Clark County Health District, said an infected individual from Colorado served ice cream at the Expo. Dan Maxson, an environmental health supervisor, said Clark County officials didn’t learn until late …
September 23, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A Web site is resource for Gaming Expo attendees who were exposed to the Hepatitis A virus
SEATTLE (September 23, 2005) — The Clark County, Nevada, Health Department warned that a food worker at the Global Gaming Expo, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center September 13-15, 2005, tested positive for hepatitis A. The infected food worker was serving Schwan’s ice cream samples at the Schwan’s Food …
September 23, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Possible hepatitis A exposure at conference
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAS VEGAS – Sept. 23, 2005 – Persons who attended the Global Gaming Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center (September 13-15, 2005) on September 13-14 may have been exposed to hepatitis A through an infected individual who worked at the conference. The individual was working at …
September 23, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 23, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 23, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Minister says hepatitis in Nizhny Novgorod under control
23/ 09/ 2005 VOLGOGRAD, September 23 (RIA Novosti) – The outbreak of Hepatitis A that hit Nizhny Novgorod, a large city on the Volga east of Moscow, early September is under control, the Health and Social Development Minister told journalists Friday. Mikhail Zurabov said the system of communal services should be improved and that water […] …
September 23, 2005 • Hepatitis A
20,900 Nizhny Novgorod residents receive hepatitis inoculation
23.09.2005 NIZHNY NOVGOROD, September 23 (Itar-Tass) – 20,900 residents of Nizhny Novgorod have been inoculated against type A hepatitis, Nizhny Novgorod Vice-Mayor Sergei Gladyshev told Itar-Tass on Friday. Children in orphanages and boarding schools were the first to receive the inoculation, he said. The city has received 20,000 vaccine doses from the federal authorities, so […] …
September 23, 2005 • Hepatitis A
How Safe is the Food in America’s Schools?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 22, 2005 CONTACT: Center for Science in the Public Interest 202.332.9110 New Federal Law Gives Parents Access to Cafeteria Inspection Reports WASHINGTON – September 22 – Is your child’s school cafeteria free of rodents, under-cooked or improperly stored food, and other hazards that can cause serious”and …
September 23, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 22, 2005 • Salmonella
Officials seek source of salmonella cases
The Montgomery County Health Department is investigating five confirmed cases of salmonella. "Right now we don’t have anything pointing to one particular place," county sanitarian Ron Posthauer said. "These could very well be home outbreaks." Lang provided the following practices for reducing chances of contracting salmonella: Do not eat raw …
September 21, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 21, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 21, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Number of hepatitis patients in Volga River city reaches 867
21.09.2005 NIZHNY NOVGOROD, September 21 (Itar-Tass) – The number of hepatitis A patients has grown to 867 people, including 166 children, in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga River since an outbreak of the epidemic early in September, sources from the regional healthcare department told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. According to the sources, 75 […] …
September 21, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Infected water cause of hepatitis outbreak in Nizhny Novgorod
Sep 21 2005 YEKATERINBURG. Sept 21 (Interfax) – A breakdown in the sewage system and infected water were the cause of a recent outbreak of Hepatitis A in Nizhny Novgorod, the Volga-Urals emergency situations center reported. The sewage system broke down during the maintenance of the Novo- Sormovskiye water purification …
September 21, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Controlling foodborne hepatitis A outbreaks related to green onions
21 Sep 2005 Novel use of genetic testing methods helped public health officials control and limit the further spread of four outbreaks of foodborne hepatitis A virus in 2003 related to the consumption of green onions, according to a detailed analysis published in the October 15 issue of The Journal …
September 21, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 21, 2005 • Events & Speaking Engagements
Hy-Vee Kitchen Department (2005)
Bill Marler's address at a company-wide Kitchen department meeting for Hy-Vee focused on educating kitchen managers and workers about liability as a food service establishment. The meeting was held at the Hy-Vee headquarters, in West Des Moines, Iowa. …
September 20, 2005 • Listeria
$2 million CSU grant targets study, control of Listeria
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 Bacterium causes food-borne illnesses By NIKOLAUS OLSEN NikOlsen@coloradoan.com A Colorado State University professor has netted a $2 million grant to find new ways to control Listeria, a bacterium that contaminates ready-to-eat foods and puts pregnant women at risk for stillbirths and miscarriages. Listeria causes an estimated …
September 20, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Genetic testing stops hepatitis A outbreak
ATLANTA | September 21, 2005 Scientists in Atlanta say they employed a novel use of genetic testing methods to control the spread of food-borne hepatitis A in 2003. Joseph Amon and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the molecular epidemiologic methods had not previously been used …
September 20, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 20, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 20, 2005 • Outbreaks
September 20, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Nizhni Novgorod Got Hepatitis on Decayed Water Supply Sysem
Sep. 20, 2005 Nizhni Novgorod prosecutors brought in September 19, 2005 an action concerning the outbreak of hepatitis A in Nizhni Novgorod. As of Monday, as much as 751 residents of the region have been taken to hospital, the number of diseased grows by 100 people each day. The extent of the epidemic points to […] …
September 20, 2005 • Hepatitis A
Health Department Still Silent on Hepatitis
Tanya Mendis September 19,2005 Health inspectors still have not explained why they won’t give the location of a confirmed case of Hepatitis A at a restaurant in Walker County, Georgia. McDonald’s corporate office confirmed the location and says the threat has been removed, the question remains however, why would the …
September 20, 2005 • Salmonella
Unsafe food-handling raises risk
Although Gaston County health officials can’t point to an exact source, they say an unsafe food-handling process at a Gastonia restaurant likely contributed to a salmonella outbreak last week. At least 25 children out of 128 who attended a banquet Friday night at City Club of Gastonia have been diagnosed …
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