Enteric infections Outbreaks of suspected foodborne disease There were seven outbreaks of suspected foodborne disease reported in NSW in the period (two in November and five in December), affecting at least 59 people. All outbreaks were thought to be caused by contaminated restaurant food. Of the seven outbreaks, three were reported directly to Public Health Units by the treating doctors or aff...

Enteric infections Outbreaks of foodborne disease Ten outbreaks of suspected foodborne disease were investigated in July andAugust 2010. In three of these outbreaks (one of which occurred in an aged-care facility) stool specimens tested positive for Salmonella Typhimurium. In one, samples of the fried ice-cream that the affected people had consumed in a restaurant also tested positive for S. Ty...

BACKGROUND The outbreaks of foodborne diseases is a major health problem and occur daily in all countries, from the most to the least developed. This study is the first report of foodborne outbreaks in Iran that carried out from 2006 to 2011. METHODS A retrospective, longitudinal study carried out using foodborne disease national surveillance system data from 2006-2011, which have been report...

Background and Aims: Newcastle disease virus (NDV) infection have been established in at least 241species of birds representing 27 of the 50 orders of the class.NDV isolate were obtained from infected ostrich flock during the outbreaks of ND in Iran 2012. The F gene fragment which codes the main functional region of the F protein was obtained by RT-PCR and sequenced. Methods: From the pathotype...

Exposures to contaminated water can lead to waterborne disease outbreaks associated with various sources, including many that are classified and reported separately as drinking water or recreational water. Waterborne disease outbreaks can also involve a variety of other exposures (e.g., consuming water directly from backcountry or wilderness streams, or inhaling aerosols from cooling towers and...

Waterborne disease remains a major public health problem in many countries. We report findings on nearly three decades of waterborne disease in Israel and the part these diseases play in the total national burden of enteric disease. During the 1970s and 1980s, Israel's community water supplies were frequently of poor quality according to the microbiological standards at that time, and the count...

This article assesses the role and significance of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) with respect to infectious disease surveillance and response to outbreaks. Increasingly, the BWC is being used as a platform for addressing infectious disease threats arising naturally as well as traditional concerns about malicious dissemination of pathogenic microorganisms. The latter have long had a pl...

Coral reefs are under increasing pressure in a changing climate, one such threat being more frequent and destructive outbreaks of coral diseases. Thermal stress from rising temperatures has been implicated as a causal factor in disease outbreaks observed on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and elsewhere in the world. Here, we examine seasonal effects of satellite-derived temperature on the ab...