The CDC reports a food safety alert after 73 salmonella illnesses across 22 states and 15 hospitalizations. A voluntarily recall for certain diced onion products from Gills Onions include some lots of...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the botulism outbreak in Bordeaux, France, the Public Health Agency of Canada reports three of the 10 cases are residents of Canada. One death has been reported,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 An E. coli outbreak has been declared for six locations of a Calgary daycare and five additional sites that share a central kitchen. At this time, 17 lab-confirmed cases have been...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on non-travel related Cyclospora illnesses in Canada year to date, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) now reports 299 cases through August 15. Of this total,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Toronto Public Health (TPH) has reported its first probable human case of West Nile virus (WNV) in an adult resident in 2023. WNV is an infection transmitted to people through the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Nova Scotia Health continues to investigate the source of Legionella infections in the New Glasgow area. Public Health is working closely with the Department of Environment and Climate...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) reports investigating 185 non-travel related Cyclospora illnesses as of July 18, 2023. 170 cases, or 92 percent of the cases have been...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the anthrax outbreak among bison in the Northwest Territories, the government now reports 28 confirmed cases in the Slave River Lowlands. The outbreak was first...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the suspected anthrax outbreak in bison in the Slave River Lowlands, the Government of Northwest Territories reports the anthrax outbreak in the Slave River Lowlands...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Five Registered Nurses (RNs) from the Philippines will arrive this week in Saskatchewan. This is the first of several groups of Filipino RNs with conditional job offers that will...