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25th March 2009
Prof Hugh Pennington has published his report of the Public Inquiry into the major outbreak of E.coli O157 in South Wales in September 2005. The outbreak was the largest of its type in Wales and the second largest in the UK. 157 ca... ...read on
26th January 2009
New research into the immunity levels of farmers and abattoir workers to E. coli O157 has been launched in a bid to gain a better understanding of the potentially deadly infection. Fifty livestock farmers and slaughterhouse employe... ...read on
12th November 2008
During the first 28 weeks of 2008, Health Protection Scotland received 87 laboratory reports of E.coli O157 infections, an increase of 20 (30%) on the same period in 2007. Although reports to week 28 in 2007 were 32% lower than the same period in 2006, the in... ...read on
14th September 2007
William Tudor, 54, from Cowbridge, Vale of Glamoganr has been jailed for a year for food safety offences which led to a fatal E.coli outbreak in 2005. Tudor admitted six charges, including supplying contaminated meat from his meat business in Bridgend and the court he... ...read on
7th June 2007
According to a study by researchers at Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, ACE Inhibitors (drugs commonly used to treat high blood pressure but used extensively for those who have suffered from HUS, Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome) have been linked to birth defects if tak... ...read on
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