It was Tuesday evening, June 7. A frightening outbreak of food-borne bacteria was killing dozens of people in Germany and sickening hundreds. And the five doctors having dinner at Da Marco Cucina e Vino, a restaurant in Houston, could not stop talking about it.

Fall trout fishing in Montana is just around the corner, so time for a little follow up to a series of four about Montana’s high rate of NRs.

More cases of E. coli O157 are being confirmed at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, U.K., with 27 children and one adult now affected. Three of the children were admitted to hospital with the potentially lethal bug, which can lead to kidney failure. One child is still being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.

Gambling can be dangerous to your health. Health chiefs are investigating a possible food poisoning incident after 11 people fell ill at a racecourse. Three people needed hospital treatment after visiting Hamilton Park racecourse in South Lanarkshire on Monday.

On 27 Jun 2011, the Military Hospital in Santiago, Chile, received 2 male patients, who were transferred from the hospital in Esquel, Argentina, for further diagnosis and treatment.

At least four people were in hospital in New Jersey this week after eating wild mushrooms. An onslaught of rainy conditions in the region has resulted in mushrooms popping up in astonishing numbers, making nonpoisonous fungi even more difficult to differentiate from toxic ones, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported today.

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Abstract This study presents the results of investigations on the susceptibility of Campylobacter spp. strains isolated from chicken meat and giblets to fluorochinolones (ciprofloxacin), macrolides (erythromycin), tetracyclines (tetracycline) and aminoglycosides (gentamicin) and an analysis of the molecular mechanisms of resistance to the selected antibiotics.

An edited excerpt appears below -- dp Nobody likes uncertainty. Everybody on the receiving end of risk communications prefers those communications to be definitive, not tentative. But the painful truth is that the concept of “risk” is intrinsically uncertain, and risk communicators have no choice but to address the uncertainty, whether they do so well or badly.