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Study tests online surveys for getting control data during outbreaks

By Joe Whitworth on June 3, 2020

The use of online surveys to collect responses from healthy people during outbreak investigations has been tested by researchers in Canada.

In foodborne outbreak investigations, case-control and cohort studies are used to test hypotheses and…
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Blackberry warning remains in place as outbreak declared over

By Coral Beach on February 19, 2020

Federal officials still can’t say for sure where the blackberries came from, but today they repeated their public warning about fresh berries that were sold in the fall of 2019 and linked to a multi-state…
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Second retailer named in update on outbreak linked to blackberries

By Coral Beach on December 10, 2019

Two more patients have been confirmed and a second retailer has been named in relation to an outbreak of hepatitis A associated with fresh blackberries.

The implicated blackberries, sold by Fresh Thyme Farmers Market grocery…
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Patient count continues to increase in outbreak linked to fresh blackberries

By Coral Beach on December 3, 2019

Two more people are confirmed infected and a sixth state is involved in a hepatitis A outbreak associated with fresh blackberries that were sold in September. More than half of the victims have required hospitalization.
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More patients confirmed in multi-state outbreak of hepatitis A linked to blackberries

By Coral Beach on November 27, 2019

The patient count in a multi-state hepatitis A outbreak traced to fresh blackberries continues to rise, even though the berries were sold two months ago.

As of Nov. 26, there are 14 people across five…
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Last Year’s Hepatitis A Outbreak Sickened 1,444 People in Europe

By James Andrews on September 9, 2014

At least 1,444 cases of Hepatitis A were reported in 12 European countries in connection with a variety of mixed berry products last year, according to the final outbreak report by the European Food Safety…
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Berry Lovers Benefit from Food Safety Scrutiny

By Cookson Beecher on July 22, 2010

It’s berry season.  Time for some chlorine.  

No, we’re not talking about chlorine as in sunglasses and swimming pools but rather chlorine as in berry farmers and irrigation water.

And while the juxtaposition of…

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