Officials in the United Kingdom are investigating close to 30 related Hepatitis A infections with some linked to imported dates.
There are 28 people sick in different parts of England since the start of this
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Sequence-based typing has helped to detect clusters and identify outbreaks of hepatitis A in Sweden, according to a study.
Researchers investigated hepatitis A virus (HAV) sequences of 447 cases reported in the country from 2009
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Two outbreaks of hepatitis A virus (HAV) with 17 infections are under investigation in Ireland.
A total of 21 patients have been identified during a three-month period in Dublin, with 17 linked to the outbreaks
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Three studies have been published describing water and foodborne outbreaks in India and the Philippines.
The articles, in a supplement of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, involve Salmonella, Hepatitis A and suspected anthrax. They
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More than 20 E. coli infections are being investigated in a German municipality.
Four day care centers in the Lützow-Lübstorf district are affected by the outbreak of E. coli O26. Lützow-Lübstorf is in Nordwestmecklenburg, in
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More than 20 people have been infected with hepatitis A in an outbreak in a German municipality.
There have been 23 infections in the community of Dummerstorf in the Rostock district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Three more
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Sweden is once again battling a rise in the number of Campylobacter infections after a temporary decline. A common source related to chicken has been identified.
Since August, the number of people who have contracted
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Officials in Sweden and Denmark are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak with frozen imported berries suspected to be the source of infection.
Since mid-July, nine patients with the same type of hepatitis A virus have
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More than 40 people are sick and almost a third have needed hospital treatment as part of a foodborne Shigella outbreak in Denmark.
From the end of August, 42 people have been registered with shigellosis
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The resurgence of a hepatitis A outbreak linked to strawberries underlines the importance of complete traceback of implicated products during outbreaks, according to researchers.
Following outbreaks linked to frozen strawberries in Sweden and Austria in
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Public health officials in Denmark are looking into three outbreaks that have sickened almost 50 people with one caused by Hepatitis A and two due to rare strains of Salmonella.
Since June, the Statens Serum
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