Officials in Hong Kong have issued a warning because of a rise in Hepatitis A cases since October.
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health reminded the public to maintain strict
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Dutch Salmonella cases hit record low
Since the beginning of the century, the number of patients with salmonellosis has more than halved, according to a Dutch epidemiological report.
There were an estimated 27,440 patients with acute gastroenteritis due to salmonellosis in
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Who’s minding the lab?
States and territories have been steadily building their epidemiology staffs, but they collectively need another 1,200 to reach “full capacity” in terms of several key health areas, including foodborne illnesses and other infectious diseases.
One
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Romaine source(s) remain elusive as E. coli outbreak grows
The number of victims in an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce jumped almost 60 percent in the past week as public health officials struggled to determine the source or sources of the implicated
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Don’t Forget the Epidemiology: Unraveling a Five-Year Listeria Outbreak
It’s not every day that you see an outbreak of foodborne illness spanning five years. But that’s what happened with a Listeria outbreak first announced 10 days ago by the Centers for Disease Control and
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Oregon Outbreak Museum Memorializes What We’ve Learned About Foodborne Illness
When revolutionary epidemiologist William Keene started working for the Oregon Public Health Division in 1990, he also started collecting packaging from recalled products, restaurant menus, and other elements from his outbreak investigations and displaying them
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Could Funding Cuts to Food Safety Programs Make You Sick?
(This blog post by Michelle Forman was published July 23, 2014, at APHL’s LabLog and is reposted here with permission.) When public health works, no one sees it. 
That’s a common adage at APHL and
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Outbreak Case Counts: Why Official Numbers Fall Far Below Estimates
When news broke this past fall of two separate Salmonella outbreaks tied to Foster Farms chicken, one of the most noteworthy aspects of each outbreak was the number of patients sickened. To date, the outbreaks
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Final Report: 22 Sickened in Bay Area Burma Superstar E. Coli Outbreak
A total of 22 people in San Francisco fell ill in August in an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Burma Superstar, a restaurant in the Richmond neighborhood, according to an outbreak report released Monday
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Social Media Apps Use Twitter to Track Illness Outbreaks
The opportunity to use social media platforms to report and track foodborne illnesses is becoming increasingly feasible as more and more people use social media to discuss the ins and outs of daily life. In
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Tracking Down the Source of Outbreaks: It’s Complicated
At an FDA lab in Denver, Microbiologist Melissa Nucci preps for testing peanut butter samples for Salmonella. Photo courtesy of FDA’s flickr. With a globalized food supply brought to us by increasingly complex supply chains,
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