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Albury Public Health Unit was investigating a gastro-like illness in more than 30 people across the Border, more than 20 having presented at the Albury Base Hospital alone. “Three persons have been confirmed as having salmonellosis. One suspected case has been hospitalised,” the advice said.

The Ozaukee Health Department, with assistance from health officials at the State Division of Public Health, is investigating a cluster of gastrointestinal illnesses among children in Belgium, WI. The investigation has identified two laboratory-confirmed cases of E coli O157:H7 infection in siblings. One had onset in December and one had onset in January.

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Officials in Germany say eight teenagers were hospitalized after a test of courage in which they drank chili sauce more than 200 times hotter than normal. The Red Cross in the southern city of Augsburg says 10 boys, aged 13 and 14, year drank the sauce Wednesday morning, apparently in school.

This study aimed to measure rates of hand sanitiser use in a hospital entrance foyer four months after a baseline study during New Zealand’s influenza pandemic. Of the 743 people observed over one (summer) day in December 2009, 8.2% used the hand sanitiser, which was significantly lower (p<0.0001) than the 18.0% reported in the August (winter) study.

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BATON ROUGE -- The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals will reopen Area 29 to oyster harvesting at sunrise Wednesday, January 20, 2010.  DHH evaluations of Area 29, located in Lower Calcasieu Lake, have determined the molluscan shellfish growing waters there are suitable for harvest of oysters.

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