Showing posts with label EHEC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EHEC. Show all posts
Thursday, July 07, 2011

ECDC: Lessons Learned On EHEC Outbreak

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  # 5677     At an informal health council meeting in Sopot, Poland over July 5th-6th, ECDC director Dr. Marc Sprenger deli...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

EFSA Task Force Report On E. Coli O104:H4

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    Photo Credit – ECDC     # 5672     The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released an updated task force report o...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Sweden: First Domestic EHEC Case

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    # 5659     Today, the Smittskyddsinstitutet ( Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control ) announced their first loca...
Monday, June 27, 2011

WHO: EHEC Update

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  # 5654     From the World Health Organization this morning, an update on the EHEC (E. Coli) in Germany, and a few details on the ...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

UK: Updated Sprout Safety Statement

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    # 5651   Even as the sprout-linked  EHEC outbreak in Germany drags on, a new ( and similar ) outbreak has been reported in Bo...
Monday, June 13, 2011

ECDC: EHEC/STEC Update June 13th

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    # 5625   Although German authorities are hopeful that the peak of the EHEC or Shiga-Toxin Producing E. Coli outbreak has...
Friday, June 10, 2011

RKI: Sprouts Behind Europe’s EHEC Outbreak

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    # 5617     Although none of the test samples taken from the sprout farm under suspicion in Lower Saxony have come back posi...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

A Double Referral: McKenna And Smith On EHEC

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    # 5615   With a constant barrage of confusing and conflicting media reports regarding the E. Coli  (EHEC/STEC) outbreak in Europ...
Monday, June 06, 2011

EHEC: Preliminary Sprout Tests Negative

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    # 5610     You could almost see this coming .   After a 24-hour news cycle with the media all-but indicting an organic spr...

Germany: Waiting For Test Results

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      # 5606   Although many in the news media have latched firmly onto `organic sprouts’ as the `likely source’ of the E. Coli i...
Sunday, June 05, 2011

McKenna On The Antibiotic Resistance Of Germany’s E. Coli

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    # 5604     Maryn McKenna , Flublogia’s resident expert on antimicrobial resistance, has a long and very important piece ap...

ECDC EHEC Update & Collateral Damage

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      # 5603     A number of public health agencies ( Robert Koch Institute , CDC , WHO Europe , ECDC , etc. ) are putting out s...
Saturday, June 04, 2011

WHO Europe: EHEC Update & FAQ

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    # 5600     The expanding outbreak of EHEC (or STEC   Shiga-Toxin Producing E. Coli ) in Europe has produced an avalanche of n...
Friday, June 03, 2011

CDC Health Advisory (HAN) On Shiga-Toxin Producing E. Coli 0104

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    # 5599     The CDC’s Health Alert Network ( HAN ) is designed to ensure that communities, agencies, health care professional...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Report: EHEC Outbreak From New E. Coli Strain

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      # 5594     It is being widely reported this morning by the International press that Chinese scientists at the Beijing Geno...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

CDC Statement On Europe’s EHEC (STEC) Outbreak

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      # 5592       While the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany has the lead on the investigation of the large outbreak o...