In the wake of May’s European E. coli outbreak, microbiologists worldwide have sped up efforts to prevent a similar disaster from happening again. Among them, a team of collaborators
One of the nation’s largest beef processors announced Thursday that it has begun testing for six poisonous strains of E. coli in addition to E. coli O157:H7 — the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy remains unchanged: the agency considers any disease-causing strain of E. coli to be illegal.
Why that statement was removed from a press
The size and severity of Europe’s E. coli O104:H4 outbreak was coming into worldwide focus as May passed into June, and it was time for the American government
The O104:H4 serotype has an unusual clinical pattern for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) pathogens, including bloody diarrhea in adults followed by a high conversion rate to adult hemolytic
In the wake of the horrible E. coli outbreak in Germany, many food safety advocates are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to get off the dime
As of Tuesday, the toll in the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany was 3,697 illnesses, 856 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and 40 deaths.
Major
“I watched my friends get sick, just melt away, and die in hours.” A senior, returning to our college from Nepal in 1968, after participating in a 5 year program
Clusters of E. coli infection reported in Eastern Tennessee could be the “new normal” as non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) take their place beside O157, making outbreaks all that
Most of us don’t get too many opportunities to lead change in our organizations and businesses. We might be in a position to try, but creating change is very
Nancy Donley, an avid and educated food safety advocate with STOP Foodborne Illness (previously Safe Tables Our Priority), has often said, and I can only paraphrase here, that if you
In the midst of what has tragically become the deadliest E. coli outbreak in history, serious questions are being raised about the need to step up testing here to protect