Surveillance & Analysis on Campylobacter News & Outbreaks
Alarming health department statistics show more than 800 South Australians have suffered food poisoning in the first seven weeks of this year.
This is more than double the year-to-date average of 379 for the past three years.
The usual health authority reckoning is that the confirmed cases represent about 10 per cent of the number…
The University of Vermont College of Medicine has been chosen as the single participating academic medical center in the nation to collaborate with the Navy Medical Research Center (NMRC) and Denmark-based ACE BioSciences in the development and evaluation of a new vaccine against one of the most common food-borne bacteria, Campylobacter. The first study in…
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Consumers Union is calling for the creation of a single food agency to ensure adequate, efficient and effective oversight of our nation’s food supply. Consumers Union welcomes today’s hearing in the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee to bring attention to the inadequacies in the government’s system to monitor food’s safety.
As highlighted in last week’s GAO…
KARACHI: A surveillance study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Campylobacter in meat, milk and other food commodities in Pakistan. Over a period of 3 years (January 2002-December 2004), a total of 1,636 food samples of meat, milk and other food commodities were procured from three big cities of Pakistan (Faisalabad, Lahore and…
Yale researchers now have some answers about how the bacterium that is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States enters cells of the gut and avoids detection and destruction, according to a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Diego in December.
While scientists are…
