The field is narrowing in the search for the mysterious “Restaurant Chain A,” implicated by public health officials as the source of a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in
With the release of the movie Contagion, I thought it would be appropriate to post my cheat sheet on how to investigate a disease outbreak. Aspiring disease detectives take notes!
A complaint lodged by Del Monte Fresh Produce against an Oregon Public Health epidemiologist has been dismissed by the state’s Government Ethics Commission.
The Oregonian’s Lynne Terry reported
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Wednesday announced the launch of two pilot programs that will explore the best methods for tracing back food to its source.
The
In a report published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments recount how they tracked the
Fenugreek sprouts are “the most likely connection” between the outbreaks of E. coli O104:H4 in France and Germany, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for
The outbreak of E. coli affecting more than a dozen victims in Bordeaux, France is now almost conclusively linked to the ongoing epidemic of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany
Foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S. are not getting worse, but the government response to food-related outbreaks is deteriorating, according to a paper published by the American Enterprise Institute
The German E. coli outbreak is demonstrating the difficulty of identifying a “smoking gun” in outbreaks of foodborne illness.
Some are asking, “Where is the evidence?” By “evidence,” I believe
HAMBURG, Germany — Officials at the University Hospital in Gronigen, Netherlands got a call Tuesday from the Bremen hospital — just over the border in Germany — asking if they’d be willing
The Rhode Island Department of Health has posted another update in its ongoing investigation of the Salmonella outbreak linked to zeppole and other pastry items prepared and sold last month
Cantaloupes grown in Guatemala have been blamed for a baker’s dozen of Salmonella Panama illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and various state health