By the turn of the century, climate change could raise the risk of diarrhoea by about a third in countries where the condition is already common, according to research published online this month in Environmental Health Perspectives. Even conservative estimates suggest a substantial impact, according to the authors, Erik Kolstad and Kjell Johansson.

During August and September 2010, an outbreak comprising 22 cases of Legionnaires’ disease was identified by the public health service in Wales. The cases are distributed over a wide geographical area in South East Wales. There are two space-time clusters centred on the upper Rhymney Valley and the lower Cynon Valley respectively.

Sometime in Jan. 2010, someone in Texas got really sick with listeria.

OTTAWA --The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Charcuterie L. Fortin Limitée (Establishment # 288) are warning the public not to consume certain ready-to-eat meats described below because the products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The following L. Fortin ready-to-eat sliced meats, bearing Establishment number 288, are affected by this alert:

I used to work with a guy a long time ago who said, “when I retire, I’m going to take my guitar, a couple of amps, sit on my front porch, and do a lot of hallucinogens.” He had a poster of Jimi Hendrix in his office.

A small spike in the levels of cancer-causing aflatoxins in farm milk recently supplied to Fonterra has been traced back to a single import shipment of copra cattle feed but is not high enough to warrant alerting the New Zealand Food Safety Authority, the dairy giant says.

Abstract

Abstract

In April 2008, several cases of acute gastroenteritis (GEA) among residents and staff of an elderly nursing home were reported to the health departmental authorities. An investigation was started. A case of GEA was defined as any person presenting with diarrhoea or vomiting, with or without abdominal pain or fever>38 °C. From April 18th to May 22nd 2008, 66 cases of GEA were identified.