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U.S. health officials say the largest U.S. outbreak of mumps in three years is occurring in New York and New Jersey.
At the height of the nationwide salmonella outbreak nearly a year ago, FBI agents raided two peanut plants and carried away boxes of evidence. FDA inspectors found roaches, mold and a leaky roof. Then, Congress revealed e-mails from the peanut company's top executive that seemed to suggest the pursuit of profits over ensuring public safety.
The World Health Organization will send an emergency team to help the Philippines fight a bacterial disease outbreak that has killed at least 148 people and sickened nearly 2,000 in and around the flood-hit capital, officials said Thursday.
Several thousand patients of a New Jersey doctor should get tested for blood-borne diseases because of an outbreak linked to his office that has led to more than two dozen being diagnosed with hepatitis B, state health officials said.
With the swine flu outbreak rapidly spreading, state and local health officials are queasily considering what effect a pandemic could have on their budgets, already due for deep spending cuts amid the lingering recession.
Slowing the spread of a swine flu epidemic in the United States could well depend on how quickly communities can empty schools, close day care centers and shut down public gathering spots — and on whether ordinary people are willing to stay away from their neighbors.
The shuttered Texas plant owned by a peanut company blamed in a national salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 700 people was fined a record $14.6 million on Thursday.
A New Jersey doctor whom health officials suspect was the source of a hepatitis B outbreak had his medical license suspended indefinitely on Wednesday by state regulators.
After Georgia-made peanut products were named as the culprit in a nationwide salmonella outbreak, state lawmakers have moved quickly on a bill to make Georgia the first to require food makers to swiftly alert state inspectors if their internal tests show their products are tainted.
The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry.
New cases of salmonella poisoning linked to tainted peanut products have slowed so much that federal officials will no longer provide weekly updates for one of the nation's largest-ever foodborne outbreaks.
Sickened consumers who sued the peanut processor blamed for a national salmonella outbreak could have trouble recovering damages from company accounts because assets listed in a bankruptcy filing Friday will likely go to other businesses that bought its products.
A Texas agriculture inspector failed to note that a peanut plant at the center of a national salmonella outbreak was operating without a state health department license, despite at least three visits in the years before hundreds of people got sick, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
So, a guy walks into a restaurant. Who makes sure his food is safe?
Detecting illnesses linked to the nation’s ongoing salmonella outbreak might have gone faster, health officials say, except for a hodgepodge of state laws and practices that delay precise identification of the potentially deadly bug.
Tests show ground peanuts at a Texas plant were contaminated with the same strain of salmonella that has sickened hundreds of people across the nation, state health officials said Wednesday.
Tight state budgets have led some of the biggest farm states to leave dozens of food inspection jobs vacant at a time when hundreds have been sickened by a nationwide salmonella outbreak tied to a filthy peanut processing plant.
Six salmonella cases in Colorado have been linked to tainted products from a shuttered Texas plant owned by the peanut processing company at the focal point of a national outbreak of the disease.
First, federal investigators said Stewart Parnell knowingly shipped salmonella-tainted foods even after internal tests showed they were contaminated. Then they revealed the evidence: e-mails Parnell sent to his employees urging them to ship out the products that authorities say ultimately sickened hundreds and may have caused the deaths of nine.
The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. The Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut Corp. of America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Virginia Friday, the latest bad news for the company that has been accused of producing tainted peanut products that may have reached everyone from poor school children to disaster victims.
Texas health officials ordered a recall of all peanut products from a plant operated by a company at the center of a national salmonella outbreak after inspectors found dead rodents, feces and feathers.
Even before Texas ordered a recall of peanut products from the company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak, many customers of its plant in that state were playing it safe by pulling products and running their own tests.
The number of deaths linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak rose to nine Wednesday when Ohio health officials announced that an elderly woman who died earlier this year had been infected with the strain involved.
Internal e-mails indicate the owner of a peanut company urged his workers to ship tainted products after receiving test results identifying salmonella.
With attention focused on the danger of salmonella in tainted peanut products, it’s easy to forget that foodborne bacterial poisoning more often results from eating contaminated meat, poultry or raw eggs.
CTV News | Experts divided on H1N1 'third wave' predictionsThe current wave of H1N1 activity may have peaked in all provinces and territories, the Public Health Agency of Canada says in its latest assessment on the state of the pandemic.
The European BioWar outbreak and the censoring of it by the mainstream news media.The biggest story on the Planet today is the outbreak of a very serious Advanced Biological War virus in Europe. The second biggest story on the Planet is the suppression of this story for almost two weeks by the corporate owned mainstream news media.
CDC: Swine flu has sickened 22 million in 6 monthsIn a news release by the national center for disease control, it was reported that new data indicates that in the last six month, 20 million had contracted " Swine Flu" and that no fewer than 4000 people including 450 children had died from it.
Mumps Outbreak Hits Brooklyn | MagazineNew York City's health department today confirmed a mumps outbreak in Brooklyn. The disease spread among children attending a summer camp in upstate New York and has affected at least 57 people ages 1 to 42, with the majority ranging in age from 10 to 15 years.
Lawsuit filed in E. coli outbreakTwelve families victimized by an E. coli outbreak that sickened hundreds and killed one last summer filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Locust Grove restaurant that was alleged to have been the source of the bacteria.
Swine flu hits county jail Hillsborough County jail officials say they are offering masks and bacterial gel to their employees after two confirmed cases of swine flu at the Orient Road jail.
High school football team cancels game due to H1N1 outbreakALEXANDRIA, Ky. -- A high school football team is canceling a game due to an H1N1 flu outbreak.
Football Team Faces Possible H1N1 OutbreakSANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- A Santa Cruz high school is dealing with a possible outbreak of the H1N1 virus after several athletes on the school's football team became sick with flu recently.
U.S. Infection Rate Set at 50% with 90,000 DeathsUp to half of the population of the U.S. could come down with the swine flu and 90,000 could die this season, according to a dire report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. More Articles
Animal docs fill homeland security slotsIn the war on terrorism an unlikely recruit, the veterinarian, is quietly serving homeland security needs. Vets, in their day-to-day duties, on farms and in the field, are acting as a kind of early warning system to detect agro or bio-terrorism events.
H1N1 Pandemic Spreading Too Fast to CountThe World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case. More Articles
First 'Healthy' Swine Flu Death"We've all been gritting our teeth, waiting for this to happen, and now it has. This doesn't necessarily mean the virus has mutated. "Whether more patients with no underlying health problems die of the disease really depends on what the virus does next." More Articles
Deadly New Ebola-like Virus DiscoveredExperts have identified a highly contagious and lethal new viral disease, which infected five people in Southern Africa. With some similarities to Ebola, the so-called Lujo virus may have passed to people from rodents. More Articles
Compulsory vaccination urged after U.K. measles outbreakEXCERPT: A prominent doctor said yesterday he would lobby the British Medical Association (BMA) to change its stance in favour of compulsory immunisation, and the Welsh assembly is actively considering the move following a series of outbreaks of measles across the country.
Superiority because of race is no more acceptable..One may be superior in terms of knowledge or any other thing,but racist approach is a matter of concern.We have seen black and white both mingle together in United States.Things at times get different in London Streets.But over …
Swine Flu scare is all over the globe. The threat of a Swine Flu pandemic is imminent according to international news reports. The fear that it could kill a multitude of inhabitants is growing. Everyone should be concerned.
Mexican traveler is HK's first swine flu caseHong Kong has confirmed its first case of swine flu, Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen said. ''We have our first confirmed swine flu case in Hong Kong. He is Mexican,'' Tsang said. The Mexican arrived yesterday via Shanghai from his home country, Tsang said.
Mexico Swine-Flu Outbreak Traced To "Manure Lagoons" at Pig FarmThe first known case of swine flu emerged a fortnight earlier than previously thought in a village where residents have long complained about the smell and flies from a nearby pig farm, it emerged last night.
Swine Flu in Canada - Information SourcesCollection of links to good online sources of information about swine flu, from the Open Medicine Blog.
CDC: At Least 50 Cases of Swine Flu Confirmed in U.S.This article gives a breakdown of the states as of the most recent that I can find who are confirmed with swine flu. 13 California 6 Texas 1 Ohio 2 Kansas 28 New York Additionally, New Jersey five probable cases
Swine flu killing love in Mexico Mexico's government literally ordered people to stop kissing to prevent the spread of the virus, which, health officials say, has shown signs of "pandemic" proportions.Mexican flu cases, many of the victims show similar signs of the deadly Spanish flu virus.
Q&A: Swine fluA new strain of swine flu found in people in the United States and Mexico is raising fears of a possible pandemic. Learn more about the disease and why it is causing concern.
Americans told to wear masks as swine flu spreads round globeDoctors in America are advising worried patients to buy painters' masks as a precaution against the global outbreak of swine flu that appears to have spread from Mexico to the United States, New Zealand and possibly Europe.
HOW TO: Track Swine Flu OnlineThis resource guide will help you better track cases of Swine Flu and other public health concerns.
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