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News Scan for Oct 20, 2015
UK Ebola nurse improves
; CDC food outbreak tool
Hospital upgrades nurse Ebola survivor's condition to serious but stable
The condition of a Scottish nurse who is hospitalized with neurologic complications following an Ebola infection has been upgraded from critical to serious but stable, Royal Free London hospital said yesterday in an update.
Pauline Cafferkey got sick with Ebola late last December upon her return home from serving in Sierra Leone. She was treated at Royal Free London's high-containment unit and was discharged from the hospital late the following month after blood tests showed she was free of the virus.
She was hospitalized again on Oct 9 at the same facility, however, with what authorities said was an unusual late complication from the disease.
Health officials have said her complications are neurologic and that traces of the virus were found in her spinal fluid. Her case raises issues about long-term consequences of Ebola in survivors and risks that may linger in patients and their contacts.
Oct 19 Royal Free London statement
CDC launches redesigned FOOD Tool for foodborne outbreaks
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a retooled online platform to simplify and enhance searching more than 15 years' of data on US foodborne disease outbreaks, the agency said in a news release.
The updated Foodborne Outbreak Online Database Tool (FOOD Tool) lets users search by state, food, or pathogen. The FOOD Tool, first unveiled in 2009, includes national foodborne outbreak data reported to CDC from 1998 to 2014. New interactive features such as maps, graphs, and tables enable searches by specific foods and ingredients, view a "quick stats" display, and get case counts for multistate outbreaks.
FOOD Tool's data come from the CDC's Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System, which contains information on foodborne outbreaks caused by intestinal bacteria, viruses, parasites, and chemical agents reported by state, local, and territorial public health agencies.
About one in six Americans get sick from foodborne illness annually, the agency said.
Oct 20 CDC news release
CDC FOOD Tool
FOOD Tool FAQ
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-persp...an-oct-20-2015
UK Ebola nurse improves
; CDC food outbreak tool
Hospital upgrades nurse Ebola survivor's condition to serious but stable
The condition of a Scottish nurse who is hospitalized with neurologic complications following an Ebola infection has been upgraded from critical to serious but stable, Royal Free London hospital said yesterday in an update.
Pauline Cafferkey got sick with Ebola late last December upon her return home from serving in Sierra Leone. She was treated at Royal Free London's high-containment unit and was discharged from the hospital late the following month after blood tests showed she was free of the virus.
She was hospitalized again on Oct 9 at the same facility, however, with what authorities said was an unusual late complication from the disease.
Health officials have said her complications are neurologic and that traces of the virus were found in her spinal fluid. Her case raises issues about long-term consequences of Ebola in survivors and risks that may linger in patients and their contacts.
Oct 19 Royal Free London statement
CDC launches redesigned FOOD Tool for foodborne outbreaks
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a retooled online platform to simplify and enhance searching more than 15 years' of data on US foodborne disease outbreaks, the agency said in a news release.
The updated Foodborne Outbreak Online Database Tool (FOOD Tool) lets users search by state, food, or pathogen. The FOOD Tool, first unveiled in 2009, includes national foodborne outbreak data reported to CDC from 1998 to 2014. New interactive features such as maps, graphs, and tables enable searches by specific foods and ingredients, view a "quick stats" display, and get case counts for multistate outbreaks.
FOOD Tool's data come from the CDC's Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System, which contains information on foodborne outbreaks caused by intestinal bacteria, viruses, parasites, and chemical agents reported by state, local, and territorial public health agencies.
About one in six Americans get sick from foodborne illness annually, the agency said.
Oct 20 CDC news release
CDC FOOD Tool
FOOD Tool FAQ
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-persp...an-oct-20-2015