An agency in Ireland has warned about the increased risk of Cryptosporidium because of the start of petting zoo season.
The Health Service Executive’s Department of Public Health Mid-West is advising people to improve handwashing in and around farm settings, and to test and treat well water, to reduce the
Continue Reading Start of petting zoo season prompts infection risk warning
New knowledge about transmission and persistence of E. coli O157:H7 between and within farms has been revealed by a researcher at a Swedish university.
Lena-Mari Tamminen’s doctoral dissertation at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) identified possible target areas for on farm measures to reduce prevalence of the deadly
Continue Reading Study on Swedish farms widens E. coli knowledge
Campylobacter was found at most beef cattle farms and a quarter of them had Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, according to a Dutch study.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) investigated in 2017 how often some pathogens occurred
Continue Reading Research shows Campylobacter, E. coli found at many Dutch cattle farms
A child in the United States is thought to be part of an E. coli outbreak linked to a farm in Iceland that has affected 21 people.
A spokeswoman from Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told Food Safety News it was aware of one case that is
Continue Reading Maine investigates case of E. coli linked to Iceland outbreak
Ice cream production and contact with calves has been stopped while investigations continue into an E. coli outbreak in Iceland, according to one of the owners of the farm.
A cluster of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) O26:H11 infections have been traced to the tourist attraction Efstidalur II farm
Continue Reading Farm linked to E. coli outbreak halts ice cream sales and animal contact
This past weekend I woke up to the sad news of yet other injuries and a death linked to animal contact at a fair.
San Diego County health officials announced late Friday night that a 2-year-old child has died and three other children between 2 and 13 years old
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, time to ban petting zoos?
Infected farm animals followed by person-to-person contamination were the likely cause of an E coli O157:H7 outbreak that killed two children and sickened ten other people in a remote community on the Utah-Arizona border.
Public health officials say the outbreak was likely caused by animal manure containing E. coli O157:H7
Continue Reading Deadly Utah-Arizona E. coli outbreak blamed on farm animals
