Sarah Svensson, the Ph D candidate who is an expert in Campylobacter and who was running as a Green Party candidate in British Columbia, lost.
She received 854 votes with a total of 12,731 ballots being cast in Columbia River-Revelstoke. The district easily re-elected the NDP’s Norm Macdonald to his second term. He bested BC
We do not usually follow politics on this blog. Nor are we any kind of experts about elections in British Columbia. Who has a chance, and who does not—well, those are questions you are going to have to get answered elsewhere.
Nevertheless, we think its worth noting that one of the Green Party
New Zealand’s South Canterbury is on many dream vacation lists. The area between the Conway and Waitaki rivers and what New Zealand calls its Southern Alps to the west, the area’s many attractions are anything if not inviting.
The tourist brochures for Christchurch and other places in South Canterbury, however, do not mention the fact
Raw milk can be a host to a wide array of pathogens, including but not limited to, staphylococcus aureus, campylobacter jejuni, E. coli, listeria monocytogenes and yesinia enterocolitica. The incidence of infection varies worldwide and not all cases of illness are serious enough to be reported. Since 1998, the Centers for Disease Control
Meridian Bioscience, a fully integrated life science company, has received the FDA clearance for a new test for Campylobacter. Launched as Premier Campy, the rapid enzyme immunoassay test provides for optimized detection of Campylobacter infection, the company said.
According to the company, there is a significant need for the Premier Campy test because
Campylobacter infections still topped the list of zoonotic diseases in the European Union as of 2007.
That at least is the finding of The European Food Safety Authority’s and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s Community Zoonoses Report for 2007, which monitors the occurrence of infectious diseases that can be transmitted from animals
The UK’s Farmers Weekly Interactive (FWI) is reporting that the British Poultry Council wants the government’s Food Standards Agency to join it in setting up a technical group to come up with “cost effective measures for tackling campylobacter.
FWI quotes the Council’s Ted Wright as saying: “Foodborne illness caused by campylobacter infection is still a
Hawaii’s Star-Bulletin today takes a look at the high rate of campylobacter contamination being experienced on the islands of the nation’s 50th State. The newspaper reports that:
With about 800 cases per year, Hawaii has the highest rate of reported Campylobacter infections in the nation. Cross-contamination of foods with Campylobacter and other bacteria can
Last March when we wrote here about an outbreak of Campylobacter being attributed to the mud in a bike race up in British Columbia, we thought it was a one-time weird event. We were wrong. It has happened again.
We have this report from Wales via Metro. Co.UK:
“Mud contaminated with sheep faeces was
We’d be happy if the grocery store carts just came with wheels that worked. We do admit looking at each cart pretty carefully before taking it and we’ve always stacked things with some strategy in mind. (You do have to think about where the diaper-clad rider was sitting an hour earlier.) And we have on