There's a Major Foodborne Illness Outbreak and the Government's Shut Down
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/shutdown-salmonella/
Late-breaking news, and I'll update as I find out more: While the government is shut down, with food-safety personnel and disease detectives sent home and forbidden to work, a major foodborne-illness outbreak has begun. This evening, the Food Safety ...
Vaccine refusal fuels whooping cough outbreaks, study finds
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaccine-refusal-fuels-whooping-cough-outbreaks-study-finds-8C11301986
The 2010 whooping cough outbreak in California ? the worst in 50 years ? may have been fueled, at least in part, by clusters of parents who refused to vaccinate their children, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed local rates of children ...
Shutdown Salmonella Outbreak Continues. CDC Food Safety Chief: 'We Have a ...
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/shutdown-salmonella-2/
We're 11 days now into the federal shutdown and four days since the announcement of a major foodborne outbreak in chicken that is challenging the shutdown-limited abilities of the food-safety and disease-detective personnel at the Centers for Disease ...
Parents Not Vaccinating Kids Contributed to Whooping Cough Outbreaks
http://healthland.time.com/2013/09/30/parents-not-vaccinating-kids-contributed-to-whooping-cough-outbreaks/
At first, the outbreak was blamed on waning immunity to the whooping cough vaccine, but new research published in the journal Pediatrics reports that the high number of children who were intentionally unvaccinated also contributed to the rapid spread ...
Continuing Salmonella Outbreaks
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/opinion/continuing-salmonella-outbreaks.html
The episode is especially dangerous because the seven strains of salmonella bacteria involved in the outbreak are resistant to antibiotics, in some cases to multiple antibiotics. As of Friday, 338 people have been reported as infected by the seven ...
Government slimdown will weaken ability to track disease, flu outbreaks
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/10/01/government-slimdown-will-weaken-ability-to-track-disease-flu-outbreaks/
"We're afraid that this will weaken our ability to detect infectious disease outbreaks if they were to occur, and to stay ahead of some of the outbreaks that we're still doing research on," Barbara Reynolds, director of the CDC's Division of Public ...
Disease Outbreaks Prompt Recall of Furloughed Workers
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/10/09/disease-outbreaks-prompt-recall-of-furloughed-workers/
Three government agencies responsible for ensuring food and drug safety and curbing disease have recalled furloughed workers to investigate outbreaks. The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention brought back 10 of roughly 9,000 ...
Book Review: Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives ...
http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2013/10/15/book-review-deadly-outbreaks-how-medical-detectives-save-lives-threatened-by-killer-pandemics-exotic-viruses-and-drug-resistant-parasites/
Anyone who follows my writing knows that I'm a big proponent of using stories to talk about science. We've discussed how you can use science fiction teach science, zombies to talk about disease outbreaks, and my TEDx talk discussed using principles of ...
