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
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.
After
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
Drinking raw (untreated) milk or eating raw milk products is "like playing Russian roulette with your health," says John Sheehan, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Division of Dairy and Egg Safety. "We see a number of cases of foodborne illness every year related to the consumption of raw milk."
More than 300 people
An E. coli outbreak in North Ogden has health department officials pointing fingers at a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant.
It happened in June when some three hundred educators were attending a conference at a junior high in Harrisville, where for one day, Wendy’s provided the food. The health department investigation concluded that iceberg lettuce from Wendy’s
New hand sanitizer dispensers are mounted in every animal barn at the Clark County Fair this year, more than 150 in all. Abundant signs posted in two languages warn visitors to leave food and drink outside barns, and to use the gel upon exiting.
Another 12 wash stations with 24 sinks, soap and towels were