Health authorities across Australia are investigating several Listeria infections.
Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria officials are studying three different clusters.
A brand of shredded chicken was revealed as the probable source of one nationwide Listeria outbreak. The product is used mainly by restaurants, cafes, and hospitals.
Queensland Health officials
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Five children needed hospital treatment in an Australian state as part of a Salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry.
Queensland Health is investigating Salmonella Typhimurium infections predominantly among young children that had contact with backyard chickens.
As of June 26, there had been 17 cases reported across the state. Thirteen
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Public health agencies in Australia have issued advice to help people avoid food poisoning this holiday season.
The country is in it’s summer months now and has also been affected by bushfires and record high temperatures of 41.9 degrees C (107.4 degrees F) this past week.
In New South Wales
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A spike in food poisoning cases in an Australian state has prompted doctors to warn people about safe food preparation.
House Call Doctor responded to around 20 cases of food poisoning in the space of a week in Queensland, according to local media. The team of medical practitioners provide home
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The scare about sewing needles in strawberries first identified in Australia has spread to New Zealand.
Officials with Countdown, a supermarket in New Zealand, said needles were found in a punnet of strawberries from Western Australia, which was bought in one of its supermarkets in Auckland. The Choice brand of
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Sewing needles have been found in six brands of strawberries sold at Woolworths in four Australian states.
Queensland authorities warned people who bought the Berry Obsession, Berry Licious, Love Berry, Donnybrook Berries, Delightful Strawberries, and Oasis brands of strawberries in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria
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At least 250 people attending a convention for school principals last week in Brisbane, Australia, were reportedly sickened with a foodborne illness and 24 were hospitalized.
Dr. Jeannette Young of Queensland Health said the conference participants had fallen ill after returning home, so the total number of those reported as
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