A company in England has been fined for failing to promptly tell authorities it was working with high-hazard infectious agents.
Lab 21 Healthcare, a company that operated a high-containment laboratory
In a rare occurrence of locally acquired typhoid fever in Canada, health officials in Ottawa recently traced an outbreak back to a chronic Salmonella Typhi carrier working as a food
Four people have died and more than 600 were sickened at two schools in Kenya recently.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) is investigating a suspected gastroenteritis outbreak at Mukumu Girls
A waterborne typhoid fever outbreak sickened more than 20 people in China earlier this year.
The outbreak involved 23 patients in an apartment in Changping District in Beijing and was
Three studies have been published describing water and foodborne outbreaks in India and the Philippines.
The articles, in a supplement of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, involve Salmonella, Hepatitis
Officials in Singapore are investigating if two typhoid fever cases are linked to eating at a food outlet.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) and Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said two
Colorado public health officials have confirmed three cases of typhoid fever among individuals who had eaten at a Mexican restaurant in Firestone, CO, this past August. Two of them were
An employee at the Nordstrom Café in San Francisco’s Stonestown Galleria has been diagnosed with typhoid fever and may have exposed customers to the disease, according to the San
A food handler working at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., has tested positive for typhoid fever, state health officials announced Tuesday. Those who ate at the university’s Boiler
Editor’s Note: In the winter of 1924-25, oysters exposed to polluted water were responsible for a typhoid fever epidemic that spread to New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Two years ago, health officials were alerted to a nationwide outbreak of deadly Salmonella Typhimurium. Eventually, the source was traced by epidemiologists at the Minnesota Department of Health. Here’s
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that Santa Fe Springs, CA-based Fruiti Pops, Inc. was recalling its Fruiti Pops 4 oz. Mmaey frozen fruit bars due to
