A food poisoning outbreak at Carnegie Mellon University Stack’d restaurant has sickened “numerous students,” according to news reports. Stack’d is the university’s on-campus restaurant that is located in the basement of Morewood Gardens Hall. Allegheny County’s Health Department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is investigating.
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A British family of four including two children have been rushed to hospital in Morocco after suffering ‘severe food poisoning’ having eaten at a local restaurant.
Moroccan newspaper, Bayane Marrakech, reported the victims, two British tourists with their two children aged 10 and 12, were taken to Razi Hospital in Marrakesh.
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Food poisoning associated with the consumption of oysters from France in Spain
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Became ill after eating oysters from France in the Netherlands and Sweden
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BUTUAN CITY – At least 216 residents from a village in the Agusan del Sur town of Esperanza town were taken to various hospitals on Monday night after experiencing stomach ache, vomiting, and loose bowel movement — common effects of food poisoning.
Dr. Jackie Momville, the provincial health officer, said the affected residents from Barangay Tandang Sora were admitted at Esperanza’s community hospital and nearby towns.
The patients were among the 1,000 beneficiaries of a feeding program.
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Foodborne infectious diseases, such as collective foodborne illness (TIAC), represent a health risk for the population and are often caused by the consumption of food contaminated by pathogenic bacteria (Salmonella, Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus, etc.). ). Each year, between 10,000 to 16,000 people are affected by TIAC in France, whether in a family environment, in commercial or collective catering.
Each year, Public Health France publishes a report on the epidemiological evolution of TIACs based on mandatory notification data. In 2022, the number of notified TIACs is the highest recorded since the implementation of surveillance in 1987 and continuing the upward trend observed before the Covid-19 pandemic. It exceeded the increase already observed in 2019 after a decrease in 2020-2021, most certainly linked to the implementation of physical distancing measures and the application of barrier gestures during the pandemic.
According to a study, an outbreak of ciguatera poisoning from contaminated fish affected 19 people on a ship in Australia.
The food poisoning outbreak was reported to the Central Queensland Public Health Unit in December 2021.
A bulk carrier sailing from Higashiharima, Japan, to Gladstone, Australia, reported an incident of sudden illness, with 19 of 20 sailors on board having a combination of gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms.
All 20 sailors consumed a self-caught barracuda and squid prepared by the ship’s cook the day before. Leftover samples of the fish and squid were sent for testing. According to the study published in the journal Communicable Diseases Intelligence, the barracuda sample contained ciguatoxins.
A recent report from the Food and Drug Administration has found that a sheep farm was likely a contributing factor in the contamination of onions.
The finding came when investigators searched for the cause of a 2020 outbreak of Salmonella Newport foodborne infections associated with red onions from the Southern San Joaquin Valley and Imperial Valley in California.
“The outbreak, which caused 1,127 reported domestic illnesses and 515 reported Canadian cases, is the largest Salmonella outbreak in over a decade,” according to the research report. “This outbreak is also remarkable because the food vehicle, whole red onions, is a raw agricultural commodity that had not been previously associated with a foodborne illness outbreak.”
The head of a dairy company behind a Listeria outbreak in Austria faces more than a year in prison.
The boss of Käserei Gloggnitz was sentenced to 13 months in jail this week. The 39-year-old faced several charges but denied the allegations and the verdict was reported not to be final, according to media reports.
A Listeria outbreak from 2020 to 2022 had 10 cases and caused at least three deaths.
Käserei Gloggnitz faced financial issues in 2022 which led to insolvency proceedings being opened and in 2023 the closure of the plant was ordered.
Additional allegations will be heard in mid-March at the Regional Court of Wiener Neustadt when several other witnesses will also be questioned.
Forty more patients have been identified as part of a Salmonella outbreak linked to charcuterie meat products.
As of Feb. 15 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reporting 87 patients across 30 states. The Salmonella I 4:I:- infections have resulted in the hospitalization of 18 patients. Illnesses started on Nov. 20, 2023. The patients range in age from less than 1 to 92 years old.
The true number of people sickened in this outbreak is likely much higher than reported so far because many people do not seek medical attention and those who do are often not tested for Salmonella infection. The CDC estimates that for every case of Salmonella infection diagnosed there are 29 cases that are not identified.
Epidemiologic and laboratory data show that charcuterie meat products from Fratelli Beretta are making people in this outbreak sick. Fratelli Beretta has recalled many brands of charcuterie meat products containing Coppa. Of 46 patients interviewed, 78 percent reported eating a variety of charcuterie meats.
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