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News Scan for Jul 03, 2013

CDC reports 47 more Salmonella cases linked to baby poultry

Another 47 people in 23 states have been infected with Salmonella Typhimurium since Jun 6 in an outbreak linked to chicks, ducklings, and other live baby poultry, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced yesterday.

  • Poultry-related Salmonella
  • Botulism from fermented tofu
  • New tick-borne disease

FOOD SAFETY SCAN: Changes to food safety rules, no meat-inspector furloughs, botulism antitoxin approved

 

FOOD SAFETY SCAN: Potential food inspection cuts, botulism antitoxin recommendation

Feb 14, 2013

 

With new rules, few public health labs to handle riskiest agents

(CIDRAP News) – With tougher security requirements set to take effect next April, few state public health laboratories plan to maintain stocks of certain pathogens considered most tempting to bioterrorists, according to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and officials with state labs.

Robert Roos
 

HHS offers some forecasts on medical countermeasures

(CIDRAP News) – A new report from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) offers a few predictions on when certain new countermeasures against biological threats will become available, including a forecast for two novel influenza drugs and possibly a next-generation anthrax vaccine within the next 5 years.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: More West Nile cases, psittacosis in Hong Kong, prison-brew botulism

 

NEWS SCAN: Botulism outbreak lessons, more meningitis cases, UK pertussis, Tdap in pregnant women, Mexico ousts H7N3

Oct 25, 2012

 

HHS seeks comments on risks of H5N1 research

(CIDRAP News) – Federal health officials are inviting the public to weigh in on whether research on H5N1 avian influenza viruses, including strains modified in the lab to make them more transmissible, is risky enough to require new safety regulations and precautions.

Robert Roos
 

Changes in select agent rules concern public health labs

(CIDRAP News) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revised its list of potentially dangerous biological agents and toxins and the regulations covering them, and some of the changes have public health laboratories concerned.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: Prison-brew botulism, Uganda Ebola outbreak over, antimicrobial keyboard covers, rabies contact tracing, Australian measles

Oct 4, 2012

 

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