A report from a London-based nonprofit investigative group said America's largest cause of foodborne sickness, a potentially fatal superbug, has been in tens of thousands of meat products sold across the country.
A report from a London-based nonprofit investigative group said America's largest cause of foodborne sickness, a potentially fatal superbug, has been in tens of thousands of meat products sold across the country.
Measurement of pathogens in raw wastewater from a population within certain sewer catchments can provide quantitative information on public health status within the sampled urban area. This so-called wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approach has the potential of becoming a powerful tool to monitor pathogen circulation and support timely intervention during outbreaks. However, many WBE studies failed to account for the pathogen decay during wastewater transportation in back calculating the disease prevalence. Various sewer process factors, including water temperature and infiltration/inflow, can lead to the variation of pathogen decay rates. This paper firstly reviewed the effects of temperature and types of water, i.e., wastewater, freshwater, and saline water, on the decay of four selected enteric pathogens, i.e., Campylobacter, Salmonella, Norovirus, and Adenovirus. To elucidate the importance of the pathogen decay rates (measured by culture and molecular methods) to WBE, a sensit
Вирусологи из Канады сообщают, что глобальное потепление может привести к неблагоприятным последствиям для здоровья людей. Они изучали популяции мух и выяснили, что изменения климата может увеличиваться число отравлений и инфекций. Исследователи Университетов Гвельфа и Торонто объяснили, что
Increase in salmonellosis in Europe: General hygiene rules help safely prepare raw poultry
In recent months, more than three hundred cases of salmonellosis have occurred in various European countries and Canada, which are linked to each other. In the UK the cases could be partly traced back to frozen breaded poultry meat. The cause was contamination with the bacterium Salmonella Enteritidis, which causes gastrointestinal inflammation. Salmonella is not killed by deep freezing and can remain infectious at temperatures below zero degrees Celsius. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the BfR are monitoring the situation together with the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL).