Raw Cougar Meat Blamed for Trichinosis
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WHITE SALMON, Wash. - Raw cougar meat, eaten by a deer hunter who found himself being stalked, is the apparent source of Washington state's first case of trichinosis since 2001, a health official says.
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Thai researchers have urged people in  Southeast Asia to stop eating raw freshwater fish because they  risk becoming infected with a parasitic worm that may  predispose them to developing liver cancer.
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Southern California marine mammal hospitals have been overwhelmed by sea lions sick from domoic acid, a toxin released by large blooms of algae.
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Health authorities of Shenzhen in southern Guangdong Province have issued a notice banning the sales of civet cats and other wild animals at local restaurants in order to prevent the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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People who eat lots of red meat may be raising their risk of rheumatoid arthritis, an incurable and crippling disease, researchers have reported.
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Federal health officials are investigating if there's a link between illnesses reported by several workers at a pig slaughterhouse in Indiana and those seen recently in workers at a Minnesota pork plant.
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California officials have discovered E. coli in cattle feces on pastures near farms being investigated as possible sources of spinach contaminated with the bacteria, which caused a nationwide outbreak of food poisoning, a state health officer said on Tuesday.
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CHESHIRE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Health officials have condemned a feces-filled and urine-soaked mobile home inhabited by a 68-year-old woman, her 22-year-old daughter and their 66 cats and dogs. The animals, 39 adult dogs, 14 puppies and 13 cats, were found caked in fecal matter.
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FOOD poisoning, it seems, has become a moving target for health officials.   For years, health experts rightly cautioned the American public about the dangers of E. coli sickness caused by raw or undercooked beef. And the handling of beef for human consumption requires vigilance.
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HAGERSTOWN, Md., Sept. 23 -- The family of an elderly Hagerstown woman who died nearly two weeks ago after eating bagged spinach questioned Saturday whether government health officials had done enough to alert Maryland residents to the threat of E. coli contamination that has been linked to at least...
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Southern California-based meatpacker United Food Group LLC said on Sunday it was recalling 75,000 pounds of ground beef believed to be contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria.
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By Tony Bridges, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Jun. 8--Think about this before sitting down to that next plate of fresh grilled grouper: The fish could contain a poison that mimics the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and for which there is no cure.
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Crohn&#39;s disease may be caused by a bacterial infection responsible for a similar bowel disorder in cattle, sheep and goats, researchers say.
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A meat supplier has greatly expanded a ground beef recall, which now includes about 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen meat that may be contaminated with E. coli.
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The UK Food Standards Agency is advising people not to eat certain batches of organic chicken found to contain traces of nitrofuran (a banned antibiotic used to make chickens grow faster).
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VERNON, Calif., June 3  /PRNewswire/ -- United Food Group LLC in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is conducting a voluntary recall of 75,000 pounds of ground beef that is believed to be contaminated with the E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria.
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New twist to investigation into food poisoning outbreak in Japan blamed on Chinese made dumplings after health minister says they may have been deliberately contaminated