Rochester General addresses scabies outbreak
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/2013/11/04/rochester-general-addresses-scabies-outbreak/3435667/
Rochester General Hospital is grappling with a small outbreak of scabies, a fairly common infectious disease caused by mites and typically transmitted by skin-to-skin contact. The hospital system's chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Mayo, acknowledged ...
UN Confirms an Outbreak of Polio in Syria
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/world/middleeast/un-confirms-polio-outbreak-in-syria.html
Published: October 29, 2013. GENEVA ? United Nations officials confirmed an outbreak of polio among children in Syria on Tuesday, lending urgency to plans for vaccination campaigns there and in nearby countries to try to halt the spread of the disease.
Syria's Polio Outbreak Is a Reminder of the Disease's Power
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131101-polio-syria-somalia-kenya-pakistan-israel-vaccine/
No one can say how the disease reached Syria, but what the outbreak shows, says Rosenbauer, is "that this is an epidemic-prone disease.? There is worry that the highly infectious disease will spread farther, as people move in and out of the area to ...
New outbreaks of Newcastle disease reported in Leningrad region
http://rbth.ru/news/2013/11/05/new_outbreaks_of_newcastle_disease_reported_in_leningrad_region_31458.html
Newcastle disease is spreading in Russia, affecting pigeons. A Newcastle disease virus has been detected in a biological sample from a pigeon in the Tikhvin district of the Leningrad region, said Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary oversight service ...
OSPIRG warns about food poisoning outbreaks, calls for tougher FDA action
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/10/ospirg_warns_about_food_poison.html
Just in time for Halloween when children are plucking candy from strangers, the nonprofit OSPIRG Foundation has released a report warning about persistent food poisoning outbreaks in the United States, calling for tougher action from the Food and Drug ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
