When Saul Sanchez, a 78-year old “green hat” supervisor at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, CO, died from COVID-19 this past April 7, nobody was thinking he might be the first of nearly
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: Infections and deaths from COVID-19 in meat, poultry industries
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” –TR
The voice of the CDC is The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is published by the federal Centers
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: CDC answers its many critics
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out with new data on outbreaks of foodborne illness, reporting statistics from 2009-2015 when outbreaks sickened more than 100,000 people.
Out of the 100,939 people who
Continue Reading CDC posts numbers on US outbreaks; chicken sickens the most
A report on an outbreak of foodborne parasite infections in California in early 2017, published by the CDC, describes how raw, wild boar meat resulted in life-threatening illnesses for several people.
Continue Reading Disease detectives blame raw, wild boar meat for outbreak
For the first time since CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report last year documented two siblings with cryptosporidiosis associated with raw milk consumption, a state is blaming an invasion of the microscopic parasites on raw
Continue Reading New Mexico parasite infection outbreak linked to raw milk
