An outbreak of strep throat in a dance team spread via pasta and was tracked on Facebook, according to a new study.
Sheboygan, Wis., has spent millions battling a nine-case tuberculosis (TB) outbreak this spring and summer that may still be growing, at a time when states are cutting their TB-control budgets, NPR reported today.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new policy on Salmonella that takes a stricter approach for pet food than for livestock feed, citing the greater risk for humans from contaminated pet food.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reaching out to small- and medium-sized produce growers to address their questions about a proposed food safety rule issued in January, the agency said in a news release yesterday.
The subdivided farm bill that the US House of Representatives passed last week contains a little-known provision which could further delay implementation of the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Food Safety News (FSN) reported.
CDC experts say norovirus causes up to 21 million illnesses and 800 deaths a year.
The strain of Salmonella Heidelberg associated with a 2012-13 multistate outbreak declared over just yesterday was also found on the outbreak farm in 2004, state and federal health professionals said today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
A multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections linked to a frozen berry blend containing pomegranate seeds from Turkey has grown by 3 cases to 143, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday. Eight states are affected.
In the latest investigation development in the multistate Listeria outbreak, Minnesota officials have detected the outbreak strain in two Crave Brothers cheeses.
Chinese residents who were polled about 3 weeks into the H7N9 avian flu outbreak had a solid understanding of the disease and its symptoms and trusted government officials, researchers reported in the Journal of Infection.
Their Web-based survey included responses from 637 mainland China residents who were chosen randomly from an online data pool. The response rate was 92%.
