Castrating sheep with teeth: not a good idea (with video!)
Category: Infectious disease
Just say no to castrating animals with your teeth.
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Category: Infectious disease
Just say no to castrating animals with your teeth.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:20 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
While HUS is known to be caused by E. coli today, this wasn't the case as recently as 30 years ago.
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Category: General Epidemiology
Via H5N1, German officials are calling it for sprouts: Germany on Friday blamed sprouts for a bacteria outbreak that has left at least 30 dead and some 3,000 ill, and cost farmers across Europe hundreds of millions in lost sales....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:30 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
Maryn McKenna has a great update today on the E. coli situation, looking at where we are as far as unanswered questions about the outbreak and the strain. It's been a messy day; more evidence seems to point to the...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
Well, Sunday the said we'd have some results on the sprout tests for E. coli O104:H4. Well, so far the results are negative. The 1st tests from a north German farm suspected of being the source of an _E. coli_...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
The E. coli story is moving quickly. A news report out today suggests that sprouts might be the culprit (though it should be emphasized that the outbreak strain hasn't been isolated from these vegetables yet): Mr Lindemann said epidemiological studies...
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Category: General Epidemiology
Mike has has a great new post up looking at some molecular analyses of the current European outbreak strain. For anyone who hasn't been paying close attention to what's happening across the pond, there's an ongoing outbreak of enterohemorrhagic E....
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Category: General Epidemiology
At the new blog Puff the Mutant Dragon, there's a great pair of posts looking at the history of plague, with a focus on outbreaks that have occurred here in the US. Bubonic Plague in America, Part I: LA Outbreak...
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Category: Historical studies of disease
Echoes of a 1903 typhoid outbreak still resound today in our public health policies; a review of "The Epidemic" by David DeKok.
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Category: Infectious disease
We've had pertussis and mumps, so it was only a matter of time. State health officials declared a "public health emergency" Tuesday after a test confirmed a case of measles in an unvaccinated Dallas County baby who apparently picked up...
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