Within the past 10 days the Central District Health Department has seen 19 cases of cryptosporidiosis. During a normal year the health district might see 10 cases.

What’s Yersinia doing in salad?

In 2011, an outbreak of illness caused by Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 in Norway was linked to ready-to-eat salad mix, an unusual vehicle for this pathogen.

I lost my passport. God hasn’t found it yet. I’m stuck in Dallas.

I blame the Catholics.

Tests carried out by the U.K. Health Protection Agency (HPA) identified the toxin that causes botulism in a jar of Italian olives after an Oxfordshire resident was admitted to hospital with botulism poisoning. No further cases have been identified to date.

Just days after a deadly listeria outbreak in a New Zealand hospital was made public, some 40 patients at three health facilities supplied by North Shore Hospital's kitchen have been hit by a stomach infection.

Three people who ate raw or partially cooked shellfish in Nassau County became ill recently, and an additional five illnesses were reported to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) by three other states that received shellfish harvested in Oyster Bay.