Hepatitis A confirmed in Fort Collins restaurant employee, health officials warn patrons
A case of hepatitis A was confirmed in a food handler at Tortilla Marissa’s North of the Border Café at 2635 S. College Avenue in Fort Collins, CO., according to the Larimer County Health Department today. More...
Food poisoning 101: 3 spore-forming bacteria that cause foodborne illness
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. Clostridium More...
CDC targets five Neglected Parasitic Infections in the US
When you think of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), you think of diseases occurring in poor and developing countries. NTDs perpetuate a cycle of poverty that continues from generation to generation. Kissing bug More...
Venezuela reports spike in Chagas disease cases in January 2014
The Venezuela Ministry of Health has reported a great surge of the parasitic infection, Chagas disease during the first month of 2014, according to an El Universal report Feb. 4 (computer translated). The “kissing More...
Discussing foodborne illness with Dr. Doug Powell
Outbreaks of salmonella and the parasite, cyclospora, have been big stories in the news during recent weeks and months. Image/CDC To sort out some of the latest foodborne illness news, food scientist and editor More...
What is Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis?
The story of three Australian women who developed complications from lymphocytic choriomeningitis, which they contracted after receiving organs from one donor and shortly died thereafter was published in a Sydney More...
CDC: Campylobacter, Vibrio food borne infections increase in the US, Salmonella remains constant
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that about 48 million people, or one in six people in the United States, get sick from eating contaminated food. During a CDC telebriefing today, More...
Hepatitis A outbreak in northern Europe likely due to contaminated frozen berries: ECDC
A multicountry hepatitis A outbreak that has affected dozens in the Nordic countries of northern Europe is likely due to frozen berries, according to a European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) More...
