February 2008

Its not often an outbreak results in some instant justice.   But when 11 students at the University of Nevada Reno were diagnosed with campylobacter, a food-borne illness, the investigation quickly turned to the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

Here’s the story from the Reno Review Journal:

A fraternity at the University of Nevada, Reno has been

Arkansas and Oklahoma are not getting along these days and a debate about Campylobacter took center stage recently in the dispute.

It seems  that Oklahoma wants Arkansas to help cleanup the Illinois River by stopping the spreading of "poultry litter."   It basically sounds like Arkansas lets Tyson Foods and others spread chicken poop throughout the

We like to track as much food-borne illness data as we can.   We think its important for many reasons.  

The Irish Medical News recently reported that Campylobacter was Ireland’s No. 1 food-borne illness for 2006, the latest year for which complete data is available.  The Medical News reports:

Campylobacter infection is the most important cause