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  • US: Growth-promoting antibiotics: On the way out?

    Posted: March 26th, 2012 - 11:44am

    In 1950, Science News ran a story showing for the first time that a potent antibiotic could do more than knock out disease. New animal experiments, we reported, “cast the antibiotic in a spectacular new role” as a livestock growth promoter.

    Date Published: 
    23.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    Science News
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  • Trichinellosis, Chiloe island, CHILE

    Posted: March 26th, 2012 - 11:18am

    A total of 9 persons in Caguach and Achao communities may be affected by the parasitic disease known as trichinellosis, after an investigation performed by health authorities found 9 cases confirmed in Chiloe by the Public Health Institute (ISP, according to its Spanish initials) and with 6 more suspected cases.

    Date Published: 
    23.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    Cronica Libre
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  • US: F.D.A. is ordered to restrict use of antibiotics in livestock

    Posted: March 26th, 2012 - 11:17am

    A federal magistrate judge on Thursday ordered the Obama administration to alert drug makers that the government may soon ban the common agricultural use of popular antibiotics in animals because the practice may encourage the proliferation of dangerous infections and imperil public health.

    Date Published: 
    23.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    New York Times
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  • ILLINOIS: New antibiotic could make food safer and cows healthier

    Posted: March 20th, 2012 - 5:32pm

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Food-borne diseases might soon have another warrior to contend with, thanks to a new molecule discovered by chemists at the University of Illinois. The new antibiotic, an analog of the widely used food preservative nisin, also has potential to be a boon to the dairy industry as a treatment for bovine mastitis.

    Date Published: 
    19.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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  • Bartonella spp. in rats and zoonoses, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Posted: March 19th, 2012 - 1:08pm

    Abstract Bartonella spp. were detected in rats (Rattus norvegicus) trapped in downtown Los Angeles, California, USA. Of 200 rats tested, putative human pathogens, B. rochalimae and B. tribocorumwere found in 37 (18.5%) and 115 (57.5%) rats, respectively. These bacteria among rodents in a densely populated urban area are a public health concern.

    Date Published: 
    17.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    CDC, Volume 18, Number 4
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  • Outbreak investigation of brucellosis in Thassos, Greece, 2008

    Posted: March 18th, 2012 - 8:53pm

    In spring 2008, the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention was notified about human brucellosis cases in Thassos, a Greek island that had been up to that point under a brucellosis eradication programme. Following the verification of the outbreak a 1:1 case–control study was conducted in the island.

    Date Published: 
    15.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 11
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  • IOWA: Pig health impacts carcass contamination, food safety

    Posted: March 18th, 2012 - 1:06pm

    Close inspection prior to slaughter will definitely preclude pigs with clinical signs of disease from being harvested. But subclinically ill pigs, those that show no visible signs of being sick, can pass inspection and thereby pose a public health hazard.

    Date Published: 
    14.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    National Hog Farmer
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  • Trichinellosis in developing countries: is it neglected?

    Posted: March 18th, 2012 - 1:05pm

    Abstract

    Date Published: 
    14.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    JIDC, Vol 6, No 03
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  • The European Union summary report on trends and sources of zoonoses, zoonotic agents and food-borne outbreaks in 2010

    Posted: March 14th, 2012 - 4:01pm

    Abstract

    Date Published: 
    14.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    EFSA Journal 2012;10(3):2597
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  • EFSA and ECDC joint report on antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic bacteria affecting humans, animals and food

    Posted: March 14th, 2012 - 3:59pm

    The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published the second joint EU report on antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic bacteria affecting humans, animals and food. The report makes an important contribution to current work being carried out at EU-level to fight antimicrobial resistance.

    Date Published: 
    14.mar.12
    Source Title: 
    EFSA
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