Public Health England is investigating an E. coli O157 outbreak with people sick across the country.
One infection is in a four-year-old child from Hampshire named as Isla Aspery who needed treatment at Southampton General
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U.S. sent meat from German firm linked to Listeria outbreak
The United States is one of more than 20 countries that may have received meat from a German company linked to a Listeria outbreak.
Potentially contaminated products from Wilke Waldecker Fleisch- und Wurstwaren were distributed
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Undercooked pork a factor in Singapore’s Hepatitis E increase
Some of the rise in hepatitis E infections in Singapore may be linked to eating undercooked pork, according to a study.
The research led by the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) found that incidence of hepatitis
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CDC blames new Salmonella Oranienburg outbreak on pet turtles
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that turtles have infected 21 people in 13 states with a Salmonella strain, sending seven to the hospital. None have died.
CDC’s report says Salmonella Oranienburg
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Tomatoes linked to Salmonella outbreak in Sweden; 71 infected
Tomatoes are the probable source of a Salmonella outbreak in Sweden that affected 70 people, according to public health officials.
Folkhälsomyndigheten (Public Health Agency of Sweden) identified 71 infections from 11 counties that belonged to
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CFIA expands beef recall in ongoing E. coli O157:H7 investigation
Tip Top Poultry recall expands reach: nothing official yet on connection to August outbreak
Tip Top Poultry Inc.’s Rockmart, GA, plant has updated its Sept. 28 recall of an undetermined amount of ready-to-eat (RTE) poultry products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, The update is to alert consumers
Dutch airline may have served Listeria contaminated meat
Dutch airline KLM has issued a warning after it came out that meat products contaminated with Listeria may have been served on some of its flights.
The RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the
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Tip Top Poultry is likely key to the mystery listeria outbreak in 13 states
That listeria-contaminated chicken from Tip Top Poultry is for certain responsible for multiple recalls in the United States and Canada.
And while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has not
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Three dead in Dutch Listeria outbreak
Dutch authorities have linked three deaths because of Listeria to meat products from one company.
Of 20 patients with listeriosis, officials reported it was almost certain that they had been infected via meat products from
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South Africa boosts processed meat rules to avoid Listeria repeat
South Africa has tightened regulations for processed meat products to try to avoid a repeat of the listeriosis outbreak in 2017 and 2018. A total of 1,060 cases were confirmed and 216 people died.
The
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