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- Tainted deli meats outbreak in Canada spreads
- OTTAWA AFP — Sixty-five people have either died or become sick likely from contaminated deli meats in Canada, health officials said Thursday, as a nationwide outbreak of listeriosis expanded. The death toll from listeria infections remained unchanged at 15. So too was the number of confirmed cases, at 29....
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- Tainted deli meats in Canada kill 12
- OTTAWA AFP — The death toll from an outbreak linked to contaminated deli meats in Canada rose to 12 Monday, with several other people sickened, health officials said. The Public Health Agency of Canada said 26 cases of listeriosis were confirmed nationally, including 11 deaths in Ontario province, and...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- Hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak looms in Singapore: report
- SINGAPORE AFP — An outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease HFMD is looming in Singapore, the Straits Times reported Saturday quoting health ministry officials. The newspaper said 553 people became infected with the virus last week, up from 415 the previous week and just 12 fewer than the...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- Tainted deli meats in Canada may have killed one, sickened many
- OTTAWA AFP — An outbreak believed linked to contaminated deli meats in Canada has killed one person and made several others sick, health officials said Thursday. "As of today, 38 cases of listeriosis have been reported and 13 have been confirmed as linked to the outbreak" in Ontario province,...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Cholera kills 21 in Philippines: Red Cross
- GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines AFP — At least 21 people have died and more than 60 others are in hospital following a cholera outbreak in the southern Philippines, the local Red Cross said Wednesday. The outbreak began more than a week ago among Manobo tribesmen in an isolated area on...
- Research articles 2008-08-06
- Cholera kills 172 in Indonesia's Papua: church
- JAKARTA AFP — At least 172 villagers have died in a cholera outbreak that has triggered unrest in Indonesia's remote eastern Papua province, church authorities said Tuesday. Church aid workers in the Kamuu valley confirmed the victims had died from severe diarrhoea and vomiting caused by cholera, said Catholic...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- William Marler Calls on Congress to Act to Protect Nation's Food Supply
- SEATTLE -- The following is a statement from William D. Marler, Esq.: There is presently an outbreak of a Salmonella strain known as Saintpaul that has made more than 1,250 people sick in forty-three states, put 228 in hospitals, and contributed to the deaths of two elderly men. It...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Four die of haemorrhagic fever in southern Russia: report
- MOSCOW AFP — Four people have died in an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever and 39 others have come down with the illness in the Stavropol region of southern Russia, local authorities reported Wednesday. The fatalities were two men and two women, regional health official Irina Kovalchuk told Interfax news...
- Research articles 2008-06-25
- Tomato concerns subside among area diners, restaurants
- Local restaurant owners, retailers and customers are seeing business return to normal following the scare about salmonella-infected tomatoes.Since mid-April, tomatoes tainted with salmonella, a bacterium found in the intestinal tracts of certain animals, have led to 228 reported cases of salmonellosis nationwide, according to the Food and Drug Administration.Pennsylvania, New...
- Research articles 2008-06-17
- Mystery epidemic hits NKorea: aid group
- SEOUL AFP — A mystery epidemic spreading along some North Korean border towns with China has claimed the lives of dozens of children, a Seoul-based humanitarian group said Tuesday. The highly contagious disease has sparked a health alert with an estimated five or six children dying every day since...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Pest Problems Abroad May Affect Compliance With U.S. Safeguards
- Ninety-five percent of Mediterranean fruit fly medfly outbreaks in the continental United States since 1929 have occurred in Florida and California. USDA, along with California's and Florida's departments of agriculture, use preventive release programs to reduce the severity and frequency of outbreaks. Millions of sterile male fruit flies are released...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- China to reopen kindergartens after disease: state media
- BEIJING AFP — Kindergartens in the Chinese city worst hit by a viral outbreak preying on children will reopen next month with the epidemic judged to be under control, state media said Tuesday. Kindergartens in Fuyang in the eastern province of Anhui will reopen on June 1, which is...
- Research articles 2008-05-20
- SKorea steps up fight against worst bird flu outbreak
- SEOUL AFP — South Korea is to disinfect all poultry farms nationwide to combat its worst outbreak of bird flu, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. In the capital Seoul, all 15,000 chickens, ducks and other fowl -- including pet birds in school aviaries -- have been culled after a...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- Death toll in China disease outbreak hits 34: state media
- BEIJING AFP — The number of Chinese children confirmed dead from hand, foot and mouth disease has risen to 34 with nearly 25,000 people infected but the outbreak's spread may be slowing, state media said on Friday. Xinhua news agency reported four new deaths, including an eight-month-old girl in...
- Research articles 2008-05-08
- Virus kills 25 in China, WHO says no cover-up
- BEIJING AFP — The World Health Organisation on Sunday dismissed claims that local authorities in China had covered up the outbreak of an intestinal virus, as the death toll rose to 25. The virus, known as Enterovirus 71 or EV71, has already killed 22 children in the eastern province...
- Research articles 2008-05-04
- Outbreaks prompt scrutiny of food labeling
- Federal food-safety officials are considering whether labels on some frozen chicken products adequately inform consumers that the chicken is raw and provide sufficient cooking instructions. Stuffed chicken entrees -- which look cooked because they're breaded and prebrowned so that the breading sticks -- are blamed for...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- SKorea upgrades bird flu alert, troops on standby
- SEOUL AFP — South Korea on Wednesday issued a nationwide bird flu alert, deployed troops and put firefighters on standby to try to contain the spread of the disease, officials said. The agriculture ministry said in a statement the "orange" vigilance level was extended to the whole country after...
- Research articles 2008-04-16
- Cholera kills 39 in western Kenya amid fresh fears: officials
- NAIROBI AFP — Cholera killed at least 39 people in western Kenya in recent weeks and medical services feared a fresh outbreak, a senior health official said Sunday. Official figures showed there had been 468 reported Cholera cases, of which 123 tested positive, including the 39 fatalities in the...
- Research articles 2008-03-30
- UN links ducks, people, rice paddies for bird flu
- ROME AFP — Concentrations of ducks, rice paddies and people are primarily responsible for outbreaks of potentially deadly bird flu across Asia, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said Wednesday. "Rather than chickens, these are the major factors behind outbreaks of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Thailand and...
- Research articles 2008-03-26
- Meningitis kills hundreds in Burkina Faso
- OUGADOUGOU AFP — A meningitis outbreak in Burkina Faso has infected thousands of people, killing hundreds, in the past two months, the health ministry told the AFP Thursday. "We have identified 3,181 suspected cases of meningitis from January 1 until March 2, 2008, of whom 366 have died," said...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
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