Food safety experts at Consumer Reports are advising people in the U.S. and Canada to stop eating romaine lettuce.
During the past seven weeks, 58 people in the U.S. and Canada have become ill from the strain of E. coli O157: H7. One person in each country has died. In
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Almost 200 people on one of the world’s largest cruise ships are sick with what public health officials say appears to be a foodborne illness from the boat’s bottomless buffet.
Part of the Royal Caribbean International fleet, the American-owned Ovation of the Seas has more than 5,800 people on board
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The two Burger King locations in Bemidji, MN, remain closed Monday because of a three-month Salmonella outbreak public health officials linked to the restaurants.
Most of the 26 confirmed victims became ill in September, and health officials thought the outbreak was over. However two more people, apparently infected with the
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Frozen raspberries imported from China were the source of 615 confirmed cases of norovirus in Quebec between March and July of this year, and of 15 cases in Minnesota in August of 2016.
The Quebec outbreak included clients and staff at seven seniors’ residences, two daycare centers and one hotel
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The operational status of Miller’s Guild in Seattle is unclear as county health officials apparently continue their investigation into foodborne illnesses among the restaurant’s customers, including three who have tested positive for Salmonella infections.
Seattle-King County Public Health officials closed the restaurant Tuesday, according to their initial outbreak investigation report,
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A collection of four Salmonella outbreaks traced to Mexican papayas appears to be over, according to federal officials who report at least 251 people across 25 states were sickened, including two who died.
“Each outbreak was linked to papayas imported from a different farm in Mexico,” according to final
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Hundreds of Marine Corps recruits in California are sick in an E. coli outbreak as military investigators search for the specific source of the bacterial pathogen.
More than 300 recruits had been sickened as of Tuesday, according to a statement from Brig. Gen. William Jurney, commanding general of the Marine
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For at least the third time this year, the crowd-sourced website iwaspoisoned.com has identified a foodborne illness outbreak, this time among students who ate at a Georgia Tech dining hall.
The “North Avenue Dining Hall” at the university in Atlanta started showing up in reports on the foodborne illness website
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Norway, where Salmonella bacteria is rare in domestic livestock and locally-produced food, is experiencing its first outbreak of salmonellosis since 2013.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has not been able to identify the source of the Salmonella that has recently infected at least seven people. All seven report
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More than a dozen people across four Canadian provinces are confirmed with Salmonella infections traced to breaded chicken products, but federal officials have not irevealed what specific products or brands are implicated.
Of the 13 victims identified as of Thursday, four of them had symptoms so severe that they had
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