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CDC revises decade-old foodborne illness estimates

(CIDRAP News) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released newer, more precise estimates of the foodborne illness burden, suggesting 1 in 6 Americans get sick each year, a rate lower than previously thought.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: E coli O26 testing, Florida cholera case, dengue sequelae

 

NEWS SCAN: Avian flu in Manitoba, flu vaccine acceptance, WHO flu update, cholera vaccine stockpile, Listeria cheese recall, cell-based flu vaccine

 

NEWS SCAN: Long-term E coli effects, antibiotic resistance, drug-resistant malaria

Nov 19, 2010

 

FOOD SAFETY NEWS SCAN: Outbreak E coli ID'd in cheese, undercover egg-farm probe

 

NEWS SCAN: Sanitation, water, and disease; E coli vaccine trial; intranasal rotavirus vaccine

Nov 16, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Biosecurity in Africa, E coli cases up, Euro H1N1 lessons, Australian disease response, polio risk, antibiotic resistance

Nov 15, 2010

 

CDC finds E coli outbreak strain in cheese

(CIDRAP News) – Lab studies have found Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Gouda cheese implicated in a five-state outbreak that has sickened eight more people, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday.

Lisa Schnirring
 

Costco Gouda suspected in 5-state E coli outbreak

(CIDRAP News) – Federal health officials and the Costco wholesale chain warned consumers yesterday not to eat a California company's raw milk Gouda cheese after a preliminary investigation linked it to a five-state Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Cholera surge; E coli from soil; imported malaria, polio; vaccine referendum

 

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