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News Scan for Feb 18, 2016

China reports 3 H7N9 cases, analysis ties death to longer incubation

Hong Kong health officials today reported three more H7N9 avian flu infections, all of them in adults from Guangdong province in the southern part of China's mainland. Also, a new analysis of the disease found that longer incubation periods are associated with fatal outcomes.

  • More H7N9 cases in China
  • Two regional food safety centers

News Scan for Feb 11, 2016

Models reveal rapid two-decade global rise in dengue infections

The global incidence of dengue has increased sharply since 1990, resulting in climbing rates of disability, particularly in Southeast Asia, while mortality rates appear lower than expected, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

  • Global dengue burden
  • Antibiotic resistance in Europe
  • MCR-1 spread in French livestock
  • Saudi MERS risk

News Scan for Feb 10, 2016

Study: Behavioral cues reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions

Behavioral interventions that made clinicians justify prescriptions, offered alternatives to antibiotic treatment, or compared prescription rates with peers reduced rates of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, according to findings reported yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

  • Antibiotic prescribing intervention
  • Pneumonia drug looks promising
  • Lyme disease in Hispanics
  • FDA budget request

News Scan for Feb 05, 2016

USDA finalizes new food safety standards for chicken parts, ground poultry

The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced yesterday that it has finalized new federal standards designed to cut Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination in ground chicken and turkey, as well as in raw chicken breasts, legs, and wings.

  • Finalized USDA poultry standards
  • Adult vaccine coverage
  • First MERS autopsy

News Scan for Feb 02, 2016

Recalled nutritional powder tied to 11 Salmonella cases in 9 states

Dovetailing with recent cases announced in Minnesota and a product recall, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that 11 Salmonella Virchow illnesses in 9 states have been linked to Garden of Life RAW Meal Organic Shake and Meal products.

  • Salmonella tied to supplement
  • Saudi MERS developments
  • More Hawaii dengue
  • Malaria project

Food Outbreak Scan for Feb 01, 2016

CDC declares 2 Chipotle-linked E coli outbreaks over after 60 cases

Two outbreaks of Escherichia coli O26 infections linked to Chipotle restaurants are now over after causing 60 total cases in 14 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement today.

  • Chipotle E coli outbreaks over
  • Salmonella and nutritional powder

News Scan for Jan 28, 2016

Listeria cases tied to salad climb to 15, while Dole expands recall

The multistate outbreak of Listeria infections tied to Dole salads has grown by 3 cases, to 15, while the number of affected states has grown from 6 to 8 and Dole announced an expanded recall, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in an update. The number of deaths remains the same, at one.

  • More US listeriosis
  • H7N9 cases in China
  • Ebola screening

News Scan for Jan 26, 2016

Cucumber-linked Salmonella outbreak grows to 888 cases, 6 deaths

In the more than 2 months since a previous update, the toll of a cucumber-linked Salmonella outbreak has risen by 50 cases and 2 deaths, and Tennessee has joined the list of affected states. Cases have reached 888, deaths 6, and states 39, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.

  • More cucumber Salmonella
  • Rotavirus vaccine in Rwanda

News Scan for Jan 25, 2016

Canada links 7-case Listeria outbreak to Dole salads

Over the weekend the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) linked Canada's multiprovince outbreak of listeriosis to salads from a Dole production plant in Springfield, Ohio, that on Jan 22 was implicated in a 12-case US outbreak, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued its own recall.

  • Dole Listeria in Canada
  • UK Ebola failings
  • Malaria funds

News Scan for Jan 22, 2016

CDC says 1 dead, 12 hospitalized in listeriosis outbreak tied to Dole salad

A six-state outbreak of Listeria infections involving 12 cases and 1 death has been linked to Dole prepackaged salads, which have been recalled, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.

  • Deadly Listeria outbreak
  • Saudi MERS cases
  • More Lassa fever in Nigeria

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