The State Fair of Texas announced that its much-loved petting zoo will return to the fairgrounds this year. The attraction, which had been part of the fair for at least four decades, was axed last year because of insurance restrictions, according to The Dallas Morning News.
State Fair officials changed insurance companies last year, and
With only a few weeks remaining in barbecue season, local public health officials are urging people to cook hamburger properly and clean or discard anything that has come into contact with raw meat.
According to The Record, the reason for the warning is a sudden increase in reported food poisoning cases, the majority of which
E. coli outbreaks have been found twice in Utah in recent weeks; once in North Ogden and once in Hyrum. The Hyrum outbreak infected five people; health officials weren’t able to identify the source, reports Heidi Toth of the Utah Daily Herald.
The North Ogden outbreak, resolved earlier this week, originated from contaminated lettuce in
Eight patients, including six children, who were hospitalized after an E. coli outbreak at a day camp have been released.
The kids, along with a youth counselor and an adult from the Palisades Country Day Camp & School, were treated for dehydration, said representatives from Hackensack University Medical Center and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
An E. coli outbreak at a day camp caused several children and staff members to be hospitalized and the camp to be shut down temporarily, reports NorthJersey.com.
There were seven confirmed and seven probable cases of E. coli infection originating at the Palisades Country Day Camp & School, said Donna Leusner, spokeswoman for state Department
A lawsuit was filed today against the Wendy’s restaurant chain whose North Ogden, Utah, restaurant was traced as the source of an E. coli O121:H19 outbreak in late June.
Marler Clark, the Seattle law firm that has successfully represented hundreds of E. coli victims, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Weber County residents William and
15 cases of E. coli infection have been reported in the Longville area to the Minnesota Department of Health, according to The Pilot-Independent.
Of those, four people tested positive for the E. coli strain O157:H7. As of Friday, at least two people were hospitalized in what MDH spokesperson Doug Schultz termed as a "relatively serious
Two children have been treated for the potentially deadly E.coli infection at South Tyneside District Hospital, reports the Northeast Press.
The youngsters, both boys under the age of 10, were admitted to the Harton Lane hospital within the last two weeks. One has been discharged and the other is recovering but still receiving treatment.
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Last year, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report encouraging venues where the public has contact with animals, such as fairs and petting zoos, to adopt standards, saying that "inadequate understanding of disease transmission and animal behavior can lead to infectious diseases, rabies exposures, injuries and other health problems among
Four people contracted severe E. coli infections after eating lettuce from a Wendy’s restaurant in North Ogden, according to the Standard-Examiner.
Two of the four cases were traced to a CORE Academy conference held at Orion Junior High School in Harrisville and catered by Wendy’s. A third case was determined to have been a secondary