This week’s outbreak information from the Food and Drug Administration includes two new Salmonella outbreaks. The outbreaks have sickened at least 203 people. No other information on the outbreaks has been released.
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Continue Reading Two new Salmonella outbreaks added to list of ongoing investigations
The FDA is investigating two new Salmonella outbreaks that have sickened more than 200 people. Officials have not identified a source yet.
Traceback efforts on the Salmonella Oranienburg and Salmonella Thompson outbreaks have been initiated
Continue Reading Hundreds sick in two new Salmonella outbreaks; officials looking for sources
The Rhode Island Department of Health is currently investigating seven Campylobacter infections linked to the consumption of raw shellfish between Aug. 11 and 19.
On Sept. 11, the department and Rhode Island of Environmental Management
Continue Reading Campylobacter infections lead Rhode Island to stop shellfish harvesting at pond
A Salmonella outbreak related to a restaurant in Illinois is being investigated by county and state public health officials. At least eight patients have been identified so far.
Officials are telling the public to seek
Continue Reading Illinois restaurant subject of investigation for outbreak of Salmonella illnesses
Scientists have provided more details about the first documented outbreak of giardiasis in Italy that was linked to tap water, according to recently published research.
More than 200 people were affected during several months and
Continue Reading Researchers find Italian Giardia outbreak linked to tap water
In July the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) began collecting different types
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At least three people have died and hundreds were sickened in France in the past two months after eating wild mushrooms.
In July and August, 330 cases of poisoning were reported to French poison control
Continue Reading Wild mushrooms linked to hundreds of illnesses, three deaths in France
This week’s outbreak information from the Food and Drug Administration updates the numbers of patients confirmed in two Cyclospora outbreaks. These two specific clusters of illnesses are part of the CDC’s total count of domestically-acquired
Continue Reading FDA reports that Cyclospora outbreaks continue; no new details on cake mix outbreak
Backyard chickens and other poultry continue to sicken people with Salmonella infections with the confirmed patient count now at 863. More than a fourth of those who have been infected are children younger than 5
Continue Reading Patient count climbs in outbreak traced to backyard chickens
Likely as not, there is someone out there who practiced every pandemic precaution only to become infected with Cyclospora in the past month. The small intestine infection usually announces itself with frequent watery and sometimes
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The table below shows outbreak investigations being managed by FDA’s CORE Response Teams. The investigations are in a variety of stages. Some outbreaks have limited information with active investigations ongoing, others may be near
Continue Reading FDA’s outbreak investigations ongoing; several foods, pathogens involved
