Outbreak Detection

  • Field of Germs: Food Safety is in Farm Workers’ Hands
    The recent Salmonella outbreak linked to 575 illnesses and eight deaths across 43 states was shown to come from a dirty peanut processing plant in Georgia. And while it is essential for food processing plants to be clean and sanitary, Temple University public health ...More
    February 20, 2009
    Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
  • Chicago Flu Outbreak Proves It's Not Too Late to Get Vaccinated
    So far, this has been a mild flu season in the Chicago area but beware – the area is not completely out of the woods yet. A Catholic school on Chicago's Southwest Side discovered that when more than 200 of its 700 students plus several teachers called in sick because ...More
    February 17, 2009
    Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
  • Researchers Develop Technique for Quick Detection of Salmonella
    In the hours following an outbreak of salmonella, there are many questions. And answers can be hard to find. Where did the problem start? Can it be contained? Is the sickness likely to spread? IowaStateUniversity researchers have developed a technique for testing for the ...More
    February 9, 2009
    Posted in News
  • New NA Inhibitor Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against Influenza Virus
    A recent study suggests that a derivative of a new potent neuraminidase (NA) inhibitor offers long-lasting protection against various strains of influenza viruses A and B, including the avian influenza subtype N1 and current drug-resistant strains. The researchers from ...More
    January 27, 2009
    Posted in News
  • New Study Finds Non-Food Factors as Important as Food in Bacterial Intestinal Infections
    A new study finds swimming, having a private well or septic system, and other factors not involving food consumption were major risk factors for bacterial intestinal infections not occurring in outbreaks.Outbreaks linked to food, such as the current Salmonella outbreak ...More
    January 26, 2009
    Posted in News
  • FDA Confirms Source of Salmonella Outbreak
    A combination of epidemiological analysis and laboratory testing by state officials in Minnesota and Connecticut, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have enabled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to confirm ...More
    January 26, 2009
    Posted in News
  • FDA Update on Salmonella Outbreak
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports it has traced a source of Salmonella Typhimurium contamination to a plant owned by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), which manufactures both peanut butter that is institutionally served in such settings as long-term care ...More
    January 19, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Salmonella Outbreak Reported in 42 States
    Reuters is reporting today that an outbreak of foodborne illness caused by salmonella has sickened 388 people in 42 states. To read the complete news item from Reuters via Yahoo! News, CLICK HERE. To read updated information from the CDC, CLICK HERE.  ...More
    January 7, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Hospital Superbugs on the Rise Despite Prevention Efforts, Study Shows
    Although infection control has been substantially ramped up in Canadian hospitals since the SARS crisis of 2003, resistant bacterial infections post-SARS are multiplying even faster, a new Queen's University study shows.Led by Queen's University epidemiologist Dr. Dick ...More
    November 7, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Is the Salad Bar Safe? Produce Concerns Linger after Summer Scares
    COLUMBIA, Mo. – Widespread reports had most people afraid to eat tomatoes this summer and when tomatoes were vindicated, eating peppers became a fear. A University of Missouri food safety expert says there is only so much that can be done to assure produce is safe to ...More
    September 22, 2008
    Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
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