Anyone paying attention to the steady, worldwide march of a new swine flu has heard the same unwavering warnings: Wash your hands. Keep your distance from people coughing or sneezing. Stay home if you’re sick.
All good ideas but nothing is ever that simple.
People who study how influenza spreads know that singing and shouting, as [...]
The Centre for Food Safety tested 4,500 food samples in March – with an overall pass rate of 99.7%. Only 13 samples failed the tests.
Most of the breaches were not serious and would not pose adverse health risks upon normal consumption, the centre said. It has taken follow-up actions in respect of the unsatisfactory samples. [...]
MANHATTAN — Whether it’s the seasonal flu or swine flu, the rules for keeping disease from spreading are the same and come down to personal hygiene, according to experts at Kansas State University.
The symptoms of swine flu in humans are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include: fever greater than 100 degrees, body [...]
Lindsey Jennings woke up last Sept. 18 feeling a bit under the weather, as though she had a touch of the flu.
By the end of the day, the University of Michigan senior had been in two hospitals.
She was doubled over with abdominal cramps so bad she couldn’t move, and she was suffering violent vomiting and [...]
A car has careered into a crowd of people near open-top bus carrying Queen Beatrix, a Dutch royal family spokesperson told CNN.
Radical cleric can be sent to U.S.A British court ruled Thursday that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the United States, a member of al-Masri’s defe…Radical cleric defiant as Iraq [...]
OTTAWA — Despite public assurances that the new inspection system at meat plants is working well, the president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency told Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz in January that inspectors aren’t able to complete their inspection tasks on time, according to a newly released government document.
The document prepared for Carole Swan’s meeting [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The death of the filly Eight Belles during last years Kentucky Derby, along with the revelation that Big Brown had been treated with steroids before his dazzling victory, spurred pledges of reform and accountability for the welfare of the American thoroughbred. But as racing prepares for its biggest show on Saturday, many [...]
Irony is pretty ironic sometimes.
On the three-year anniversary of me officially starting at Kansas State University, two-years after the beginning of barfblog.com, and a year after going down the baby road yet again, Chapman finally defends his PhD and all the staff at the remnants of the Food Safety Network at the University of Guelph [...]
As the swine flu outbreak continued to spread to countries around the world, the World Health Organization today took the unprecedented step of raising the infectious disease alert level to phase 5, setting the stage for increased efforts to combat the infection.
The virus “must be taken seriously because of its ability to spread to every [...]
Introduction
Brucellosis, also called undulant fever or Malta fever, is a zoonotic infection caused by Gram-negative bacteria of the genus Brucella. Brucella melitensis affects predominantly small ruminants, such as goats and sheep, B. ?bortus is found mainly in cattle and B. suis in pigs, whereas B. canis occurring in dogs is the least common. Transmission to [...]