This past weekend I woke up to the sad news of yet other injuries and a death linked to animal contact at a fair.
San Diego County health officials announced late Friday night that a 2-year-old child has died and three other children between 2 and 13 years old
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, time to ban petting zoos?
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Raw pet foods dangers for animals, owners
Pet owners who
Continue Reading Briefly: Raw truth for pets — Fair food — Yelp all about it
It’s fair season, and a new crop of parents is taking excited youngsters to county and state fairs across the country so they can see the farm animals. Not only see them, but pet them as well. Maybe even kiss them.
Stop right there, many veterinarians and fair directors will
Continue Reading Steer clear of fair foibles — pun intended; pigs problematic, too
Over the last week I spoke to two families of very young children stricken by E. coli O111 after they both attended a small town Maine fair and petting zoo. One child was just released from the hospital after suffering from acute kidney failure and the other child was buried
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Do We Need a Petting Zoo Preservation Act?
Katie Maness was 13 years old when her parents took her and two friends to the 2004 North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh. It was a beautiful October day, as her mother Becky recalls years later, and the three girls were excited to visit the petting zoo on their own.
Continue Reading The Petting Zoo Problem
The deadly E. coli outbreak linked to the Cleveland County Fair in North Carolina grew to 61 cases by Wednesday. At least 10 people have been hospitalized.
This latest figures comes less than a week after 2-year-old Gage Lefever died from his infection last Friday. His funeral services were held
Continue Reading 61 Now Ill in North Carolina E. coli Outbreak
Four confirmed cases of E. coli may be related to North Carolina’s Cleveland County Fair, which ended Sunday. Parents of a 12-year-old Gaston County boy blame something the youngster ate or came in contact with at the county fair for his his E. coli infection. He is currently in intensive
Continue Reading County Fair Focus of E. coli Investigation in NC
Last year’s E. coli O157:H7 outbreak attributed to the Kelley Livestock Building at the North Carolina State Fair has brought changes in pedestrian and animal traffic patterns, now designed to minimize health risks at the fair. The big Raleigh event, next scheduled for Oct.11 to 21, 2012, was responsible for
Continue Reading NC State Fair Takes Measures to Prevent Another E. coli Outbreak
Nearly three months after E. coli O157:H7 sickened 25 people who attended the North Carolina State Fair, investigators know little more about what caused the outbreak, other than it originated in a livestock building on the fairgrounds.
Field notes published Thursday, from the Centers for Disease Control
Continue Reading E. Coli, Animal Exhibits and the North Carolina State Fair
The 21-page case questionnaire used by the North Carolina Division of Public Health to crack an outbreak of E. coli helped investigators to quickly focus on the Kelley livestock building on the State Fair grounds.
They have concluded that the Kelley livestock building, a permanent round-roofed structure where sheep
Continue Reading E. Coli Traced to NC State Fair Livestock Building
