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NEWS SCAN: China's avian flu progress, H5N1 in waterfowl, international flu strategy, new norovirus strain

 

Study profiles another air-travel hazard: norovirus

(CIDRAP News) – To the general risks of airline travel today—overbookings, delays, and knee-crushing seats—passengers can now add another potential indignity: enduring and contracting the explosive vomiting and diarrhea of norovirus infection.

Maryn McKenna
 

NEWS SCAN: Norovirus in oysters, European take on rotavirus vaccine

Mar 29, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Avian flu in Texas, H5N1 in Romania, oyster contamination study, cruise ship outbreaks

Mar 16, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Multiple food recalls, traveler screening for H5N1

Mar 3, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 hits Bhutan, cruise ship outbreak, E coli admission, Salmonella cases

Feb 23, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Unsanitary cheese plant, anthrax treatment, shipboard norovirus, vaccine refusal

 

NEWS SCAN: Contaminated oysters, tularemia in lab worker, food defense tool

 

CDC acts to expedite foodborne data sharing

(CIDRAP News) – At the same time that the Obama Administration inaugurates new safety and enforcement standards for the agencies overseeing food production in the United States, one of those agencies—the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—is taking steps to improve the flow of data revealing food-safety problems.

Maryn McKenna
 

NEWS SCAN: Avian flu, pandemic guidance for cargo haulers, receipts track E coli , cholera outbreak, oysters and norovirus

Mar 23, 2009

 

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