Mayor Kelly A. Yaede has announced a hepatitis A vaccination clinic for Hamilton, New Jersey residents after an employee at Rosa’s Restaurant and Catering was diagnosed with the illness. The restaurant is located on South Broad Street in Hamilton. Anyone who ate at the restaurant between November 10, 2014 and December 1, 2014 is urged … Read more
The Larimar County Department of Health and Environment is offering more free hepatitis A and immune globulin vaccinations for customers of Tortilla Marissa’s North of the Border Cafe restaurant in Fort Collins, Colorado. An employee there was diagnosed with the illness last month. The restaurant is located at 2635 S. College Avenue in Fort Collins. … Read more
A hepatitis A alert has been issued by the Cabarrus Health Alliance, after a manager at the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant at 8016 Cambridge Commons Drive, Suite B in Charlotte, North Carolina, was diagnosed with the illness. Anyone who ate at the restaurant between March 24 and April 7, 2014 should be vaccinated against the … Read more
Can a cattle vaccination reduce cases of human E.coli poisoning? Researchers in Scotland think so. In fact, their recent study suggests that using E.coli vaccines in cattle, can reduce the number of human E.coli poisoning cases by 85 percent, a huge public health benefit. E.coli bacteria live in the intestines of people and animals. Most … Read more
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have begun early-stage human clinical trials of two Shigella vaccines. Shigella is a family of bacteria that cause gastrointestinal illness. In the U.S., about 14,000 cases of Shigella infection, called shigellosis, are diagnosed each year but, as many cases go undiagnosed, health officials estimate the actual number … Read more