Another report into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 by an independent commission in the United Kingdom is complete. Several others preceded it.
This one is known as the “Griffin Report” after Professor George Griffin
Another report into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 by an independent commission in the United Kingdom is complete. Several others preceded it.
This one is known as the “Griffin Report” after Professor George Griffin…
When the Clay County Fair in Florida gets under way tomorrow for the first ten days of April, America’s love affair with fairs will be back in season.
What remains to be seen is whether…
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It’s time to add another entry on the list of outbreaks of bacterial pathogens linked to petting zoos and animal exhibits. The Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment announced that an outbreak of…
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Denver’s National Western Stock Show has no plans to eliminate its “petting farm” exhibit after infecting at least 30, mostly kids, with E. coli O157:H7 last year, sending nine to area hospitals. None died.
Instead…
The last of the 93 children infected by E. coli O157:H7 at Godstone Farm at Surrey have been discharged from the hospital, the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) said Friday.
While not every victim…
The Agriplex at the Western Fair in London, Ontario, Canada might well be North America’s largest petting zoo with easily accessible stalls for 400 animals. Just ten years ago, in 1999, the Western Fair was…
George Griffin, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Medicine at St. George’s University of London and Chair of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, will lead the investigation into the outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 at…
Continue Reading UK Professor Named to Lead Petting Farm Inquiry
Yesterday the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) said it expected more people to fall to E. coli O157 in the coming days after three more cases were linked to Godstone Farm, a children’s petting…
Safety guidelines used in the United States might have prevented the E. coli O1157:H7 petting zoo outbreaks now underway in England and Canada, says an expert on the disease.
Across Southeast England, 40 children became…
A dozen children, all under age 10, in South East England are in hospitals across the region with infections from the dangerous E. coli O157:H7 bacteria that they picked up at a popular petting zoo…
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