So sad: child dies in Washington E. coli outbreak
That E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to a Vancouver, Washington day care has taken the life of a child. It’s a little overwhelming as 16-month-old Sorenne nuzzles next to me while trying to go back to...
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Washington parents ask: what can be learned from our child’s E. coli death?
I’m going to the doctor’s for my annual check-up on Tuesday. I know I don’t exercise enough anymore, so I have high blood pressure; I’m old; I’m tired; having babies at 47 doesn’t keep one young, it...
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Underground eggs sicken 500 with Salmonella in B.C.
These are duck eggs (right), fresh from the farm, as some like to say. A colleague who is a veterinarian in the Kansas State vet college has a few ducks on her villa just outside Manhattan (Kansas) and...
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Maybe water shouldn’t be bought from a place named, ‘Hunky Bill’s;’ PNE...
A Pacific National Exhibition employee – that’s like the state fair they have in Vancouver, which is in Canada — was hospitalized Thursday night after buying and drinking a bottle of water at the fair...
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Norovirus in B.C oysters making people sick; government won’t say how many
There are three separate clusters of norovirus associated with raw oysters making people barf in the Vancouver area (that’s in Canada) but, as usual, no details were provided by health types on actual...
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Nosestretcher alert: foodborne illness happens in lots of places besides home
It’s one of those throwaway catch phrases that people promoting some food safety information campaign just can’t help themselves from using: most foodborne illness is from improper handling and cooking...
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Bad tuna sends seven Subway customers to the hospital in Vancouver
Seven customers at a Subway sandwich outlet in the international terminal of the Vancouver airport were taken to hospital on Friday afternoon suffering from an apparent bout of food poisoning....
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It’s only a matter of time before food is contaminated’ Should produce...
The Vancouver Sun reports that Metro Vancouver has rejected a special water rate for regional farmers, arguing the move would lead to a “trickle-down effect” and do little to improve the financial...
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Suspected norovirus outbreak linked to Vancouver restaurant after ill food...
A couple of years ago U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention noro dude, Aron Hall, called norovirus “the perfect human pathogen” in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Hall said with its...
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Naked sushi is happening in Vancouver (that’s in Canada), and, yes, it’s what...
Ever heard of nyotaimori? It’s the Japanese practice of serving sushi on a naked body. It’s real, beyond that one scene from the first “Sex and the City” movie. And, for a price, you can now have your...
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Washington parents ask: what can be learned from our child’s E. coli death?
I’m going to the doctor’s for my annual check-up on Tuesday. I know I don’t exercise enough anymore, so I have high blood pressure; I’m old; I’m tired; having babies at 47 doesn’t keep one young, it...
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Underground eggs sicken 500 with Salmonella in B.C.
These are duck eggs (right), fresh from the farm, as some like to say. A colleague who is a veterinarian in the Kansas State vet college has a few ducks on her villa just outside Manhattan (Kansas) and...
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Maybe water shouldn’t be bought from a place named, ‘Hunky Bill’s;’ PNE...
A Pacific National Exhibition employee – that’s like the state fair they have in Vancouver, which is in Canada — was hospitalized Thursday night after buying and drinking a bottle of water at the fair...
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Norovirus in B.C oysters making people sick; government won’t say how many
There are three separate clusters of norovirus associated with raw oysters making people barf in the Vancouver area (that’s in Canada) but, as usual, no details were provided by health types on actual...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nosestretcher alert: foodborne illness happens in lots of places besides home
It’s one of those throwaway catch phrases that people promoting some food safety information campaign just can’t help themselves from using: most foodborne illness is from improper handling and cooking...
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Bad tuna sends seven Subway customers to the hospital in Vancouver
Seven customers at a Subway sandwich outlet in the international terminal of the Vancouver airport were taken to hospital on Friday afternoon suffering from an apparent bout of food poisoning....
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It’s only a matter of time before food is contaminated’ Should produce...
The Vancouver Sun reports that Metro Vancouver has rejected a special water rate for regional farmers, arguing the move would lead to a “trickle-down effect” and do little to improve the financial...
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Now you tell us: 10 sick with Salmonella, Vancouver restaurant shut for 5 days
John Colebourn of the Vancouver Sun reports the Phoenix Garden Seafood Restaurant at 2425 Nanaimo Street was shut down after about 10 people came down with Salmonella, said Vancouver Coastal Health...
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Maybe water shouldn’t be bought from a place named, ‘Hunky Bill’s;’ PNE...
A Pacific National Exhibition employee – that’s like the state fair they have in Vancouver, which is in Canada — was hospitalized Thursday night after buying and drinking a bottle of water at the fair...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Norovirus in B.C oysters making people sick; government won’t say how many
There are three separate clusters of norovirus associated with raw oysters making people barf in the Vancouver area (that’s in Canada) but, as usual, no details were provided by health types on actual...
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