Health officials in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois and Kansas continue to investigate an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness caused by Cyclospora, a microscopic parasite. Wisconsin health officials say there are four cases here, in Brown, Grant, and Milwaukee counties. The number of people reporting a food-borne intestinal illness believed to have come from a contaminated […]
As many as 24 other children and a cook are still under treatment at the Hospital. According to Indian press reports, the Indian government has now made it mandatory for the principals and cooks of all primary schools in the state to taste mid-day meals before serving them to children. The notice came in the […]
As of July 17, 2013, 149 people have been confirmed to have become ill from hepatitis A after eating ‘Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend’ in 8 states: Arizona (22), California (73), Colorado (27), Hawaii (8), New Mexico (8), Nevada (6), Utah (3), and Wisconsin (2). [Note: The cases reported from Wisconsin resulted from exposure to […]
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin and Illinois report Illnesses. Richard Piersol of the Journal Star reports that health authorities say they are closing in on the source of an outbreak of a rare food-borne illness that has hit Nebraska and Iowa with a vengeance. The number of Nebraskans confirmed ill with cyclosporiasis has jumped to […]
The Dallas County Texas Health and Human Services reports 25 cases of the gastrointestinal infection have been reported statewide, a third of them in Dallas County alone. Investigators still aren’t sure what caused the infection, but it’s likely because of fruit or vegetables containing the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis. The Nebraska Department of Health and […]
An outbreak of the foodborne illness cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by the cyclospora parasite, which can leave victims with symptoms lasting for nearly two months, has infected at least 106 people in two states. Other Midwestern states may also be linked. The Iowa Department of Public Health said Monday that at least 71 cases […]
Deborah Kotz of the Boston Globe reports that 12 people in Cambridge, Boston, and possibly elsewhere in the state, have been sickened by a Salmonella outbreak since late June, prompting the closure of all Clover restaurants and food trucks with locations in Cambridge, Brookline, Burlington, and Boston. Ayr Muir, CEO of Clover said he was […]
Chef cooked for the Queen on her 80th birthday and his withering judgments on aspiring chefs have made him the star of the BBC’s Great British Menu series. It has been only a week since I have been back from London, and it is good to see the Westminster Council taking on a Celebrity Chef […]
The Iowa City Gazette reports that three years after a nationwide Salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated eggs from Iowa, federal prosecutors are still seeking criminal charges. Attorneys in Iowa’s Northern District are waiting to sentence a former manager of an Iowa egg company involved in the 2010 outbreak that sickened about 2,000 people, possibly to […]
Linda’s struggle over the last few years following an E. coli O157:H7 in 2009, over two years of hospitalization and two more years of rehabilitation, ended last night at 10:50. Her loving husband and family were with her as they had been all along. She was an amazingly strong, resilient and loving woman who will […]
AP’s David Pitt reports that confirmed cases of a rare food-borne illness have doubled in Iowa over four days and increased dramatically in Nebraska, with public health agencies scrambling Friday to figure out the source. The outbreak of cyclosporiasis has sickened 60 Iowans, the Iowa Department of Public Health said Friday. On Monday the department had identified […]
The CDC and MDOH reported recently a total of five persons infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from four states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Illinois (1), Indiana (1), Minnesota (2), and Ohio (1). All five ill persons were hospitalized. One death was […]
Sometimes there is little wonder why I still have a job. The Bay Area’s NBC Investigation Unit reports that Sysco Corporation, one of the country’s largest food distributors, is facing major penalties after NBC Bay Area surveillance cameras caught Sysco employees storing raw meat, milk and vegetables food for hours before taking the food to […]
The European Food Safety Authority has reported that since January 1, 2013, 15 laboratory-confirmed cases of hepatitis A virus infection have been reported in Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. All cases have a history of travel to the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano in northern Italy during the exposure period. During the same period, Italy […]
The Alabama Department of Public Health continues to investigate a foodborne outbreak that has affected at least 67 out of 100 or more people who ate a meal on July 6 after a funeral at Eastern Star Baptist Church in York. Five people are confirmed to have Salmonella (serotype Heidelberg) by the Alabama Bureau of […]