Stomach virus likely caused Olive Garden illnesses
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A contagious stomach virus is likely to blame for sickening about 370 people who ate at an an Indianapolis Olive Garden restaurant last week, a county health official said on Monday.
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Researchers say extra vitamin E fed to turkeys appears to help control infections from listeria. People who eat foods that contain this bacteria can get listeriosis.
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Anne Grintjes can't even look at produce now without cringing. "I went through a grocery store the other day and I just flinched when I looked at all the greens," said Grintjes, whose 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter fell ill during a multi-state E. coli outbreak linked to tainted spinach. "It's hard not to, after watching your little boy struggling for his life in a hospital bed."
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Residents of an apartment community for seniors in Fairfax County might be the latest victims of the highly contagious norovirus, which Virginia health officials say has struck the state with severity this year, shuttering nursing homes, closing hotels and striking dozens of inmates at the Richmond...
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Scientists believe a virus may play a role in obesity, raising the possibility that medication could be used to tackle the condition.
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When Krystina Brugh fell ill in January, her parents thought it was the stomach flu. They fed her crackers and her favorite sandwich, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, to give her strength. She didn't get better. Soon, the 11-year-old couldn't even keep down water, and her kidneys started to fail.
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People should immediately throw away more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a plant linked to a botulism outbreak, the government warned Monday. Castleberry's Food Company temporarily closed the suspect plant.
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NEW YORK  - Several cases of food poisoning that occurred in Pennsylvania earlier this year represent the first time infection with the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis (cyclosporiasis) has been associated with snow peas, according to the
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Officials are investigating Taco Bell restaurants as the possible source of the infections.
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As federal agents launched a criminal investigation into two produce companies involved in the contaminated spinach outbreak, Idaho health officials confirmed the death of a 2-year-old boy Sept. 20 was caused by tainted spinach. Kyle Allgood was the second confirmed death in the E. coli outbreak, which also killed a Wisconsin woman.
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LONDON - A bacterium that causes intestinal illness in cattle and sheep could also be responsible for Crohnâs disease, researchers said on Friday.
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STEYR, Austria - A medical intern at a western Austria hospital mistakenly injected an elderly patient with olive oil instead of antibiotics after mixing up bedside vials, officials said Wednesday.    The patient, a 79-year-old woman in the hospital for an appendectomy, was not in life-threatening condition, hospital director Harald Geck told the Austria Press Agency...
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Idaho health officials confirmed  on Thursday a toddler who died last month from kidney failure  had been infected by the E. coli strain responsible for a  nationwide wave of food poisoning linked to tainted spinach.
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most likely a norovirus like those that commonly sicken people in hospitals and nursing homes and on cruise ships -- infected 15
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By Paysha Stockton, Globe Correspondent | September 20, 2004. A waitress at a Bertucci&#39;s Brick Oven Pizzeria in Swampscott has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, prompting the local board of health to order vaccinations for all the restaurant&#39;s employees.
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Humans have had an intimate relationship with the bacteria that causes painful stomach ulcers for more than 60,000 years, scientists said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Several cases of food poisoning  that occurred in Pennsylvania earlier this year represent the  first time infection with the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis  (cyclosporiasis) has been associated with snow peas, according  to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.