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Minnesota: Salmonella cluster reported in Twin Cities, Linked to raw milk

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is investigating a cluster of five illnesses caused by the bacteria Salmonella Typhimurium among children from the Twin Cities metro. The...

Minnesota: Legionnaires’ disease cluster in Grand Rapids investigated

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is investigating a cluster of five confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease among people who live or spent time in Grand Rapids, Minnesota,...

Minnesota: 1st animal anthrax cases reported in more than a decade

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirms the state’s first anthrax case in animals in more than a decade in Kittson County, affecting multiple cattle and a horse, and has quarantined...

Minnesota: First mpox cases of 2023 reported in Hennepin County

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) confirmed two cases of mpox this week — the first cases reported in 2023. Both cases were in adults in Hennepin County. The last reported...

Minnesota reports 25% rise in syphilis while reporting decreases in other STIs

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 While Minnesota state health officials reported decreases in several sexually transmitted infections (STI) in 2022–gonorrhea down 15 percent, chlamydia down 2 percent and HIV...

Rabies: 1st post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) failure reported in the Western Hemisphere

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 According to a new article in the journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases, authors report on the first reported failure of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in the Western Hemisphere...

Minnesota: Legionnaires’ disease cases reported in Duluth

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reports being informed of two laboratory-confirmed Legionnaires’ disease cases with onsets in October 2022 and December 2022 connected with...

Minnesota: invasive Group A Streptococcal (iGAS) infections double in November

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reports, based on preliminary data, the number of iGAS cases reported in November was twice the number of cases in other months (46 cases...

Minnesota measles cases rise to 21

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the measles situation in Minnesota, state health officials are reporting 21 cases since June in the Twin Cities area. This includes 14 imported cases, two exposed...

Minnesota reports additional measles cases

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the measles increase reported in Minnesota, health officials report additional cases of laboratory-confirmed measles have been identified by PCR testing at the Minnesota...