Four more cases of E coli have been linked to the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, health bosses said.
The new cases bring the total number to 15 and are all linked to events at the venue on January 17, 18 and 19.
An investigation by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) alongside other public health bodies has indicated that burgers sold at the Hydro could have been the cause of the outbreak.
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A further four cases of the potentially fatal E.coli O157 have been linked to food sold at Glasgow’s Hydro venue.
Health officials said there were now 11 cases linked to burgers consumed at events between 17 and 25 January. All are recovering at home.
The cases are from health board areas in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Highland, Forth Valley and Cumbria.
Anyone who attended the venue recently, and who feels unwell, is asked to contact their GP.
Symptoms to look out for include stomach cramps, diarrhoea (often bloody), nausea and fever.
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About 50 people become ill from Salmonella after attending Bean Day, an annual fundraising event in Alabama.
A number of issues were identified in the county health department’s inspection report:
While the soaking of the beans in a plastic-line horse trough seems like the worst violation, this may be overstating its true involvement – because one, it was not currently used to water horses but was located there at the church where the fundraiser occurred; and two, that proper cooking would have eliminated the contamination.
Dirty water has struck again.
This time, it is at the Girls’ Hostel of the Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) in the Capital where 53 medical students have reportedly contracted Hepatitis A after consuming contaminated water, and possibly food.
While doctors from the community medicine department and the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) have gone into action to tackle the situation, students alleged the college authorities had turned a blind eye to repeated complaints about “miserable” water quality.
With Hepatitis A looming large, students have been asked to report any form of illness that may indicate contracting the virus
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Somewhere last week within the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Mari Haughey imagines that the laboratory technicians might have taken a moment to pop open a bottle of champagne.
Haughey, a registered nurse, had plenty of reason herself to celebrate. On Jan. 22, after nine months of testing positive for Salmonella, she finally cleared a check-up.
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Chef Heston Blumenthal has shut his central London restaurant after it was hit by an outbreak of a vomiting virus.
A total of 24 diners and 21 members of staff were taken ill at the two Michelin-starred Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Hyde Park due to the norovirus.
It was the same bug which forced him to close his award-winning Fat Duck restaurant in Berkshire in 2009.
Dinner’s website said that it was expected to remain closed for a week.
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CNN reports that hundreds of people aboard two cruise ships in the Caribbean fell ill due to norovirus, the latest instances in which the stomach bug has thwarted vacationers at sea.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that norovirus had hit more than 600 passengers and crew on Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas, making it one of the biggest such outbreaks on any cruise ship in the last two decades.
In addition, the Caribbean Princess, operated by Princess Cruises, cut short its own seven-day Caribbean itinerary on Friday. Princess Cruises said that 178 passengers and 11 crew members aboard had been stricken with norovirus, with CDC staffers on board Friday to help sanitize that ship.
CDC Report – Summary of Outbreaks
The Oregon Health Authority has investigated a cluster of three Campylobacter cases among Oregon residents who consumed raw oysters. The oysters came from two different markets in Lane and Coos counties. The oysters were harvested from a single source in Coos Bay, Oregon.
The three Oregon patients who became ill with Campylobacter coli (a less common species of Campylobacter) reported illness after eating raw oysters between January 15-20, 2014. All patients were males between 50-75 years of age. Of the three patients, two were hospitalized and are recovering well.
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A rare strain of Salmonella, Salmonella Overschie, caused a December 2013 outbreak in Oregon. Two people have been sickened by the strain which has never before been seen in Oregon and is typically seen less than four times a year nationwide.
The two cases are in Lane and Coos counties, which do not border one another. Both case patients are female one is a child between the ages of 0 to 9 years old and the other is a women between the ages of 20 to 29. Their exposures seem to have been within 24 hours of each other, but onset of symptoms was eight days apart.
Pulsed field gel electrophoresis tests show the isolates from the two patients are a 99 percent match. No other matches have been identified anywhere in the U.S. This indicates the two patients were sickened by the same source.
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