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Cryptosporidium Outbreak Sickened 300 in UK Last Year

(FoodSafetyNews) Approximately 300 people in England and Scotland were sickened in an outbreak of Cryptosporidium in May of 2012, announced public health authorities this week. The parasite that caused the outbreak is thought to have originated in ready-to-eat bagged salad mixes, said England’s Health Protection Agency in a report published Tuesday.

March 21, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Public Health, and Research
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Understanding the New Coronavirus: Receptor Discovered

(GlobalBiodefense) In a paper published this week in Nature, collaborators led by the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands identify the molecule that has allowed a novel coronavirus to infect at least 15 people, killing nine, since its detection last year. The pivotal discovery opens opportunities to study the virus’s origin, the level of risk Read More »

March 18, 2013
| Filed under Europe and Research
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Anthrax found in body of drug user in Glasgow

(GlasgowEveningTimes) Health officials said the middle-aged man’s death could have been caused by injecting contaminated heroin, or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with the drug. NHS Greater Glasgow And Clyde said it was an isolated case in the city. Police are investigating the man’s death, which happened on Sunday. Dr Syed Ahmed, public health consultant Read More »

March 15, 2013
| Filed under Europe and Public Health
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Drug-resistant bacteria and lack of new antibiotics pose catastrophic threat

(Nature) The danger of antibiotic-resistant bacteria should be placed alongside pandemic influenza and terrorism on the UK government’s list of threats to national security, the country’s most senior medic has advised.

March 11, 2013
| Filed under Europe and Public Health
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New hypothesis: Why bacteria are becoming increasingly more resistant to antibiotics

(EurekAlert) According to his theory, bacteria that are non-resistant to antibiotics acquire said resistance accidentally because they take up the DNA of others that are resistant, due to the stress to which they are subjected. A University of Granada researcher has formulated a new hypothesis concerning an enigma that the scientific community has still not Read More »