BACKGROUND Food hygiene in hospital poses peculiar problems, particularly given the presence of patients who could be more vulnerable than healthy subjects to microbiological and nutritional risks. Moreover, in nosocomial outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease, the mortality risk has been proved to be significantly higher than the community outbreaks and highest for foodborne outbreaks. On ...

Each year in New York City (NYC), more than 6,000 people end up hos­ pitalized for foodborne illness (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2014). Although the proportion of illness caused by food prepared away from the home is uncertain, the food service set­ ting is associated with 68% of nationally reported foodborne illness outbreaks where food was prepared in one place (Go...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hands of ready-to-eat food service employees have been shown to be vectors in the spread of foodborne disease, mainly because of poor personal hygiene and accounting for approximately 97% of food borne illnesses in food service establishments and homes. Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of hand washing practices and sanitation before commencing work among food...

BACKGROUND Ingestion of infective eggs and cysts of faecal orally transmissible parasites has been linked with the level of environmental and personal hygiene. The possibility of contamination of food with eggs and cysts by infected food vendors has also been recorded. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS This study was aimed at assessing the prevalence of parasites with direct transmission and the level o...

Food-borne parasitic zoonoses have a major impact on the health and economy in developing countries in the tropics and sub-tropics. Complex socio-economic and socio-cultural factors impact on the maintenance of parasitic zoonoses. In addition to human disease, some of these parasites are responsible for economic loss to livestock production. Throughout India, problems of food-borne parasitic zo...

Viral pathogens are the most common causes of gastroenteritis in the community. To identify modes of transmission and opportunities for prevention, a case-control study was conducted and risk factors for gastroenteritis attributable to norovirus (NV), Sapporo-like virus (SLV), and rotavirus were studied. For NV gastroenteritis, having a household member with gastroenteritis, contact with a pers...

on hygiene. The author must necessarily follow the stereotyped lines of water, air, soil, food, disposal of refuse, personal hygiene, infective diseases, and statistics. In the little work before us, written by Dr. J. P. Modi, of the Agra Medical School, the author follows the usual lines and gives admirable short and accurate accounts of the various subjects. As Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. O'Mear...