Personal Injury Law

Sheep Droppings Plus Mud Equals Campylobacter Outbreak At Wales Bike Race

Posted on December 05, 2008
 Last March when we wrote here about an outbreak of Campylobacter being attributed to the mud in a bike race up in British Columbia, we thought it was a one-time weird event. We were wrong. It has happened again. We have this report from  Wales via Metro...

Grocery Cart Washing Latest Weapon Against Campylobacter

Posted on November 14, 2008
We'd be happy if the grocery store carts just came with wheels that worked. We do admit looking at each cart pretty carefully before taking it and we've always stacked things with some strategy in mind. (You do have to think about where the diaper-clad rider was sitting an hour earlier...

Pediatric campylobacteriosis in northern Taiwan from 2003 to 2005

Posted on November 02, 2008
BioMed Central has published the abstract of a study into the character of Campylobacter isolates from infected children in northen Taiwan, as well as basic information about the patients, collected  from December 2003 to February 2005. The study involved a total of 894 fecal specimens were collected by several clinics and hospitals from children who had diarrhea, followed by plating onto selective media...

Nothing Comes Easy When You Are a Turkey Plucker

Posted on October 22, 2008
Being a "turkey plucker" would probably rank in anyone's  top ten list of the worst jobs on the planet.  It would only be worse if you were made sick doing that job.   It would be worse still if five years after the job made you a victim of Campylobacter, you were still fighting in the courts for just compensation from your employer...

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CDC Says Alaska's Campylobacter Outbreak Was From Cranes Over Peas

Posted on October 14, 2008
Palmer, Alaska is located in the striking Matanuska Valley of Southcentral Alaska, between the Chugach and Talkeetna mountain ranges.  Peas grow there in summer, the season when its possible to go out and watch the Sandhill Cranes that frequent the area...

California's Latest Report On Campylobacter-Causing Raw Milk

Posted on October 08, 2008
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PA Lifts Hendricks Raw Milk Permit And Then Gives It Right Back

Posted on September 20, 2008
Only last week's Dow experienced more up and downs than Hendricks Farm & Dairy in Franconia, PA. On Sept. 12th, the state Department of Agriculture suspended the farm's raw milk permit  and instructed the Hendricks to stop selling raw milk for human consumption unless and until the permit is reinstated...

Organic Pastures Hit With Quarantine Order - Campylobacter Bacteria With Your Cream?

Posted on September 11, 2008
We cannot resist saying it.  Our friends at Organic Pastures have stepped into again.   This just in from the State of California: Grade A raw cream produced by Organic Pastures of Fresno County –product with the code date SEP 12—is the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine order announced by California State Veterinarian Dr...

UK Newspaper Publishes Weekly Diary Of Woman With Campylobacter

Posted on August 14, 2008
The Sheffield Telegraph in the United Kingdom introduces it every week this way;   Helen Miller, of South Anston, is waiting for a lung transplant and is keeping a weekly diary to support The Star's Gift of Life organ donor campaign. The 38-year-old mum-of-two wants readers to know what life is really like on the waiting list...

Pricey And Organic Stores Are Still Dangerous

Posted on August 12, 2008
When an upper crust food chain like Whole Foods finds itself down in the muck with the likes of Nebraska Beef, its going to get noticed.  And there's been plenty of attention to Whole Foods stooping so low.  Consider "Holy Cow, Whole Foods Linked to E...

What is Campylobacter?

Posted on July 30, 2008
Campylobacter jejuni (pronounced “camp-e-low-back-ter j-june-eye") is a bacterium that was first recognized as a cause of human gastrointestinal illness in 1975. Since that time, the bacterium has been identified as the most common cause of bacterial foodborne illness in the U...

Wide geographical distribution of internationally rare Campylobacter clones within New Zealand

Posted on July 27, 2008
Cambridge University Press has published online in its Cambridge Journals an interesting article titled: "Wide geographical distribution of internationally rate Campylobacter clones within New Zealand." From the summary: During the southern hemisphere winter of 2006 New Zealand experienced a significant increase in the number of reported cases of Campylobacter infection...

Australia Struggling To Control Campylobacter

Posted on July 07, 2008
Campylobacter is the most common cause of food poisoning down under and is on the increase, with nearly 18,000 cases confirmed in Australia in 2007 (14,750 in 2002). This year, there have nearly been 8,000 cases. World Poultry Net reports: Concern over food poisoning caused by chicken meat has heightened, and has led to a new production and processing standard for the poultry industry...

Campylobacter Is Becoming Resistant To Antibiotics, University of Arkansas Study Finds

Posted on May 22, 2008
When we think of Arkansas, we do think of chickens.   That's why we were not surprised to see the University of Arkansas doing some major research focusing on chickens, Campylobacter jejuni, a pathogen found in poultry, and antibiotics. The bottom line? The University of Arkansas found that Campylobacter jejuni in poultry is becoming resistant to ciprofloxacin, a synthetic antibiotic used by humans to fight bacterial infections...

"Raw milk..should not be consumed by anyone, at anytime, for any reason"

Posted on May 01, 2008
Some official comments in news are worth nothing. Stephen J. Hedges writing in last Friday's Chicago Tribune quotes John Sheehan, director of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Office of Plant and Dairy Foods on raw milk. Here's what he said: "Raw milk is inherently dangerous, and it should not be consumed by anyone at any time for any reason...

Common Misspelling of Campylobacter - Camplobacter

Posted on April 18, 2008
Campylobacter is the second most common cause of foodborne illness in the United States after Salmonella. Over 3,000 cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003, or 12.6 cases for each 100,000 persons in the population...

Two Campylobacter Species Merging Into One

Posted on April 15, 2008
Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli, as the intestinal organisms are known, are merging into a single species, the April 11th issue of the journal Science reports.    FOX News says the researchers who authored the report think the marriage of the creatures represents a profound example of how people can affect evolution "What we're seeing here is hybridization, and it's only been recently acknowledged as an important part of evolution," said Samuel Sheppard, an evolutionary microbiologist at Oxford University in England...

Beware of Organic Manure, It Can Carry Campylobacter

Posted on April 09, 2008
The First Post, an online daily magazine, tomorrow (4/10/08) takes on some myths about organic farming.   It reports that one of those myths is that organic food is healthier.  Not only is that not true, organic can be dangerous.   The First Post warns:Organic manure can also carry the dangerous bacteria Campylobacter which causes stomach infections, vomiting and diarrhoea...

Will "Air-Chilled" Mean Less Campylobacter?

Posted on March 26, 2008
We have to admit, we really don't like doing the grocery shopping.  If we do not read the labels, we're certain to buy something we don't want or need.  And, if you do read the labels, it can take forever.Reading labels also leaves us feeling stupid...

Will "Air-Chilled" Mean Less Campylobacter?

Posted on March 26, 2008
We have to admit, we really don't like doing the grocery shopping.  If we do not read the labels, we're certain to buy something we don't want or need.  And, if you do read the labels, it can take forever.Reading labels also leaves us feeling stupid...

Outbreak Linked To Feces In The Mud

Posted on March 19, 2008
Now this is interesting, and somewhat ironic.  Last June, over a quarter of 800 bicyclists in a race in British Columbia became ill from  what public health officials believe is one of the biggest reported outbreaks in this country of Campylobacter jejuni - a diarrhea-causing bacteria that is generally contracted through consumption of contaminated food or water...

Outbreak Linked To Feces In The Mud

Posted on March 19, 2008
Now this is interesting, and somewhat ironic.  Last June, over a quarter of 800 bicyclists in a race in British Columbia became ill from  what public health officials believe is one of the biggest reported outbreaks in this country of Campylobacter jejuni - a diarrhea-causing bacteria that is generally contracted through consumption of contaminated food or water...

How High The Campylobacter Papa?!!

Posted on March 09, 2008
There's a trial going on down in federal court in Tulsa that seems to have everything going for it.  Colorful expert testimony, a determined state attorney general, and some of the nation's top food companies who appear determined to come across as just good old boys...

How High The Campylobacter Papa?!!

Posted on March 09, 2008
There's a trial going on down in federal court in Tulsa that seems to have everything going for it.  Colorful expert testimony, a determined state attorney general, and some of the nation's top food companies who appear determined to come across as just good old boys...

PLEDGES SICKENED BY RAW MEAT

Posted on February 26, 2008
Its not often an outbreak results in some instant justice.   But when 11 students at the University of Nevada Reno were diagnosed with campylobacter, a food-borne illness, the investigation quickly turned to the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.Here's the story from the Reno Review Journal:A fraternity at the University of Nevada, Reno has been slapped with a two-year suspension for hazing...

Arkansas Chicken Poop Brings Campylobacter To Oklahoma

Posted on February 21, 2008
Arkansas and Oklahoma are not getting along these days and a debate about Campylobacter took center stage recently in the dispute.It seems  that Oklahoma wants Arkansas to help cleanup the Illinois River by stopping the spreading of "poultry litter...

Campylobacter Is No. 1 In Ireland!

Posted on February 10, 2008
We like to track as much food-borne illness data as we can.   We think its important for many reasons.   The Irish Medical News recently reported that Campylobacter was Ireland's No. 1 food-borne illness for 2006, the latest year for which complete data is available...

Greens Say New Poultry code too weak to tackle campy epidemic

Posted on January 22, 2008
The government of New Zealand latest attempts to combat Campylobacter have come under fire from the country's Green Party.  Scoop, an independent news service in New Zealand, says the Greens think the Poultry code too weak to tackle campy epidemic...

New Zealand Fights Campylobacter With New Code

Posted on January 16, 2008
Campylobacter is a big problem in New Zealand.  Reporting for Meat & Poultry, the business journal for meat and poultry processors,  Bryan Salvage says:New guidelines for poultry processors have been developed by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (N...

USDA Reports on New Campylobacter Test

Posted on January 08, 2008
The new issue of  Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs, published on line by the United States Department of Agriculture, reports that a new medium developed by ARS that provides a quicker, simpler way to distinguish between Campylobacter species has been licensed for manufacture by two U...

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