Texas Department of State Health Services

An outbreak of infections from Shigella linked to a Texas restaurant has grown to include 60 patients.

The ongoing outbreak is being investigated by the Texas Department of State Health Services and is centered in Hallettsville, which is the county seat of Lavaca County, TX. Reports from the area say

Continue Reading Officials say dozens sick in Shigella Outbreak Linked to Restaurant in Texas

Health officials in Texas are investigating an outbreak of infections from Shigella bacteria.

The Texas Department of State Health Services for Public Health Region 8 is reporting the outbreak in Lavaca County but has not released the number of sick people involved.

Public health officers are interviewing sick people and

Continue Reading Texas officials looking for cause of outbreak of infections from Shigella; unnamed restaurant involved

The Texas Department of State Health Services has ordered a recall of all oysters harvested in the TX 1 area of southeastern Galveston Bay after reports of dozens of cases of gastrointestinal illness among people who ate oysters from those waters.

The recall includes oysters in the shell and shucked

Continue Reading Oysters recalled in Texas after dozens of illnesses linked to oysters from particular harvest location

Health officials say four infants in Texas have developed botulism poisoning after consuming honey. The children, all less than a year old, had all been given pacifiers containing honey before they became sick.

The first baby became ill in mid-August, with the most recent having symptom onset at the end
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Texas health officials agreed yesterday to allow a raw milk dairy to resume sales, but warned that the threat of antibiotic-resistant brucellosis infection remains for anyone who drank the dairy’s unpasteurized milk this summer.

The strain of antibiotic-resistant Brucella (RB51) bacteria, isolated from a woman in a Texas hospital, is
Continue Reading State OKs raw milk dairy to resume sales; Brucella risk remains