More than 450 outbreaks were recorded in Lithuania this past year, according to the Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC).
ULAC data shows there were 459 outbreaks in 2019 with 1,204 people affected, of which more than half — 805 — were treated in hospitals.
Of these outbreaks, 410
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Lithuanian authorities have stopped the supply of 75 tons of what they described as “unsafe” poultry meat in the first quarter of 2020.
The State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) performed more than 800 targeted inspections of imported poultry meat in the quarter. Most of these were related to the
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The number of Salmonella infections declined in the first 11 months of 2019 in Lithuania, according to a new report from the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC).
There were 717 cases of Salmonella in Lithuania up to Dec. 1, which is 7 percent less than the same period
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Two people have died so far this year in Lithuania from listeriosis, according to the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC).
Both deaths were in people older than 70 years of age. From 2013 to 2018, listeriosis was diagnosed in 57 people and 13 of them died.
Listeriosis is
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The number of people sick from Campylobacter and Salmonella infections has increased by about 20 percent in Lithuania so far this year, according to the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC).
A total of 434 cases of salmonellosis and 630 patients with campylobacteriosis were reported during the first seven
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