A Michigan woman endured prolonged hospitalization for Q-fever meningitis and two other women were also diagnosed with bacterial Q-fever infections after they drank unpasteurized milk from a farm in Livingston
Bit by bit, gene by gene, doctors and researchers in Germany and around the globe are cobbling together a profile of the microbe responsible for Europe’s alarming outbreak of
After eight weeks, more than 3,700 illnesses and 40 deaths, Germany’s E. coli outbreak is finally waning, but health officials and scientists around the world remain fixed on
As of Tuesday, the toll in the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany was 3,697 illnesses, 856 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and 40 deaths.
Major
A Central Texas television news station had to file a Freedom of Information Act request to learn the source of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in April that
Two children and two adults became ill from E. coli infections after visiting an animal farm run by the city of Everett in Washington state.
The Daily Herald of Everett
Fourth graders at a Raymond, Wisconsin elementary school got a painful lesson earlier this month. They drank unpasteurized milk at a North Cape Elementary School event on Friday, June 3
Staphyloicoccus aureus (S. aureus) was found inside a Chicago-area cake bakery and in the topping used to finish its cakes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a
Like an aftershock following a big earthquake, an outbreak of E. coli is causing apprehension in France, but is said to be unrelated to the larger outbreak of O104:H4
Early doctors’ reports of E. coli poisoning in northern Germany took as long as 16 days to wend their way up the government system and alert national health authorities, seriously
With recent estimates attributing the ongoing German E. coli outbreak to 3,406 illnesses and 39 deaths, it has become the deadliest — and second largest — E. coli outbreak in history.
Some estimates are slowly starting to come in for the painful suffering and deaths associated with Europe’s ongoing E. coli O104 outbreak.
Until now, the price tags on the