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Patrons of Subway restaurant report gastrointestinal illnesses; investigation ongoing

By Coral Beach on March 25, 2021

About two dozen people have come down sick after eating at a Subway restaurant in Idaho. Public health officials say the pathogen is norovirus.

The Southwest District Health department reports “nearly 25” people have reported…
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Criteria used to exclude people could change outbreak conclusions

By Joe Whitworth on June 5, 2020

Researchers have used an outbreak a decade ago to look at how decisions on excluding sick and healthy people from investigations could change the conclusions reached.

Criteria to include or exclude cases can help increase…
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Widow describes husband’s fight with Clostridium perfringens infection

By Jonan Pilet on February 10, 2020

Munro Sefcik was a healthy and strong 50 year old when he went to lunch with a friend at a Subway in Charlotte, NC, Monday, March 9, 2015. Wednesday night he was in intensive care …
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Feds again withhold information about E. coli outbreak; restaurant chain implicated

By Coral Beach on January 24, 2020

Federal officials today confirmed another E. coli outbreak that they had previously not revealed to the public. Specific details were not available from the CDC or the FDA, but at least four states have been…
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Briefly: Hot stockings — Healthy as a horse — Drugs down

By Kelsey M. Mackin on December 11, 2017

Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the…
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Two Seattle area restaurants named in norovirus outbreaks

By News Desk on October 28, 2017

Public Health in King County (Seattle), WA, suspects norovirus caused gastroenteritis at two local restaurants, which are some distance apart and separately owned.

Eight customers of a Normandy Park Subway restaurant are suffering from vomiting,…
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Publisher’s Platform: It is time to Vaccinate against Hepatitis A

By Bill Marler on November 6, 2016

It’s not just for travelers and people at risk anymore.

I spent the last day meeting with the family of a woman that died too young from complications of Hepatitis A after eating tainted scallops…
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2015 in Review: Animal Antibiotics

By Lydia Zuraw on December 28, 2015

Antibiotics4_406x250It’s difficult to summarize what happened on the animal antibiotics front this year. There were lots of pledges, lots of discussions and lots of reports, but not very many actions. Still, we still wanted to…
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Coming Next Summer: Antibiotic-Free Chicken From Papa John’s

By Lydia Zuraw on December 18, 2015

Papa-Johns_406x250Papa John’s is the latest fast-food chain to announce plans to cut out antibiotics from its chicken production. But while McDonald’s set a two-year timeline, Chick-fil-A set a five-year timeline, and Subway was criticized for…
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Letter From the Editor: It’s Antibiotic Resistance That’s Hard

By Dan Flynn on October 25, 2015

Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, Chipotle, Panera and, most recently, Subway have made public pronouncements indicating their intentions to source their poultry and meat from producers who don’t use antibiotics. The promises usually involve some time in the…
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