The Daily Mail reports that British tour operators Thomas Cook and Thomson are facing lawsuits after sending tourists to Club Hotel Riu Mambo, Riu Merengue and Riu Bachata, where hundreds fell ill – hotels to which American and Canadian companies had ceased sending tourists.
British tourists infected with the virus ended up on intravenous drips
May 2005
Take a few precautions with pocket pets
It’s not just petting zoos that can make kids sick. Some pets are proving risky too.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that “pocket pets” such as hamsters, mice and rats have infected 30 people – mostly children – in 10 states with a dangerous multidrug-resistant form of salmonella…
Outbreak sickens 10 in Yamhill County
Public-health officials are investigating an E. coli outbreak that struck several people who attended a Yamhill County Christian camp gathering last week.
The bacteria apparently struck teenage and adult campgoers at Camp Yamhill. The camp is about eight miles west of Yamhill. The outbreak appeared to affect people taking part in the camp’s Christian Outdoor…
Potentially deadly E. coli outbreak at Yamhill camp spreads fear
As many as 120 people who attended a gathering at Camp Yamhill between May 17 and 29 may be at risk of E. coli infection, according to Mel Kohn, M.D., state epidemiologist in the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS).
A cluster of illnesses amongst young teens who visited the Christian camp in northwest Yamhill…
Precautions cut food-borne illnesses
Experts say following a few precautions can keep food poisoning from being an uninvited guest at your summer picnics and cookouts. Food-borne illnesses such as salmonella and E. coli sicken about 76 million Americans a year. The great majority of those cases are mild, but about 5,000 people die every year.
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Avoid zoo fever
Tracy Wheeler, Beacon Journal medical writer, reports that recent federal study covering 1990 to 2000 blamed petting zoos and fairs in more than two dozen outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 which can cause severe diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and in about 2 percent to 7 percent of cases, life-threatening kidney complications.
The U.S. Centers for Disease…
Legal claims spread to Salinas Valley
The Salinas Californian reports that two Southern California outbreaks of E. coli in 2003 are finding their way back to the city of Salinas.
The first case took place in October 2003 when a group of residents at a retirement home community in Portola Valley became sick after eating raw spinach, and one of them…
E. coli requires disclosure
The Allen County Department of Health has no business shielding the location of a small, local day-care center where nine children have been stricken with a deadly strain of E. coli bacteria.
The department’s interpretation of a state law meant to protect people goes well beyond the reasonable intentions of the statute. The department has offered bits and pieces of information, an approach that has only brought on more questions rather than delivered answers.
The county health department said Indiana law forbids it to reveal the name and location of the day-care center, as well as the names of the children, according to Mindy Waldron, a department spokesperson. Waldron said the county consulted the Indiana State Department of Health in interpreting the law, which prohibits, except under extreme circumstances, public disclosure of “medical or epidemiological information involving a communicable disease or other disease that is a danger to health.”Continue Reading E. coli requires disclosure
Toddlers still fight E. coli infections
The News Journal reports that new cases of the potentially deadly E. coli infection have been reported in Central Florida since the Department of Health confirmed or suspected 68 people statewide, but the families and business affected by the outbreak, caused by animals from AgVenture Farm Shows, may never fully recover.
Port Orange resident Ava…
E. coli hits day-care center
The Fort Wayne News Sentinel reports that E. coli 0157:H7, the most deadly strain of the bacterium, has struck at least nine children in a Fort Wayne day-care center, Allen County Commissioner of Health Dr. Deborah McMahan confirmed Wednesday.
The department is not releasing the name of the center, but McMahan said one child…