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View Post: CDC Statistics On Annual U.S. Botulism Cases - NBA FOODAdvocate
20 Nov 2009 by Richard J. Arsenault  
In the United States, an average of 145 cases of botulism are reported each year. Of these, approximately 15% are foodborne, 65% are infant botulism, and 20% are wound. Outbreaks of foodborne botulism involving two or more persons are ...
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View Post: Botulism and hot-smoked whitefish: a family cluster of type E ...
13 Nov 2009 by bites News  
A family cluster of three cases of type E botulism were identified in south-east France in September 2009. The suspected food source of infection was a vacuum packed hot-smoked whitefish of Canadian origin purchased by the family during ...
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View Post: PRO/EDR> Infant botulism - UK: (Scotland)
6 Nov 2009 by ProMED Mail  
A spokeswoman for Health Protection Scotland said, "Based on our electronic records, which go back to 1983, we have not seen a laboratory report of an infant botulism case. There have been no cases of any kind of botulism in Scotland in ...
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View Post: Argentinean Doctor on Brink of Death after Eating Pickled Vizcacha ...
21 Nov 2009 by Barb  
Improperly prepared vizcacha is an ideal breeding ground for botulism, as one victim in Argentina recently found out. Dr. Francisco Diez remains in critical condition in a Mendoza hospital after eating vizcacha de escabeche and ...
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View Post: Apitherapy News: Honey Blamed for UK Baby's Botulism Paralysis
4 Nov 2009 by Editor  
Botulism spore is on and in everything. It is basically harmless until its environment is anarobic (no oxygen) where it thrives. Since honey creates a hydrogen peroxide (oxygenating)like reaction when in contact with the mucosa, ...
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View Post: Food Safety News - Global Food Safety News & Information ...
13 Nov 2009 by dflynn@foodsafetynews.com (Dan Flynn)  
Infant botulism was first recognized in 1976. Since then about 1000 cases have been reported worldwide, mostly in the United States. The United Kingdom (UK) has seen only six cases, and none had been reported in Scotland until Logan ...
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View Post: Baby with botulism in hospital
5 Nov 2009
Other cases of infant botulism have occurred after eating honey contaminated with bacterial spores. For this reason, the World Health Organisation currently recommends that all children under the age of one should not be given honey. ...
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View Post: Infectious Diseases Today: Botulism: two different foods, two ...
9 Nov 2009 by Robert Herriman  
Food borne botulism occurs when the bacterium Clostridium botulinum is allowed to grow and produce toxin in food that is later eaten without sufficient heating or cooking to inactivate the toxin. Botulinum toxin is one of the most ...
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View Post: eFoodAlert.com: Babies and Botulism: One Baby's Story
4 Nov 2009 by Phyllis Entis  
Logan Douglas, 16 weeks old, is in an Edinburgh, Scotland hospital, in "critical but stable condition" today – the first Scottish victim of infant botulism since 1983 (as far back as can be traced in the country's electronic records). ...
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