Update: July 2, 2009
July 2nd, 2009
GIDEON what's new: June 30 to July 2, 2009
GIDEON what's new: June 30 to July 2, 2009
GIDEON what's new: June 28 to June 30, 2009
GIDEON what's new: June 26 to June 28, 2009
A recent outbreak related to imported snow peas belies the fact that shigellosis rates in Denmark and Norway have remained consistently low for more than two decades.
Update: reported in ProMED
A recent episode in Brescia is the latest of several outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis in Italy. The following background information is abstracted from GIDEON:
Primary references are available on request.
Prevalence surveys:
Adenoviruses account for 7% of pediatric hospitalizations in Rome for diarrhea, Rotavirus 18.2%, Astrovirus 1% (1987 to 1989)
Adenoviruses account for 17.6% of pediatric hospitalizations in Rome for diarrhea, Rotavirus 26.7%, non-polio Enteroviruses 8.5%, Coronaviruses 1.8%, Parvoviruses 0.9% (1985 publication)
Adenoviruses account for 6% of pediatric hospitalizations in Sicily for diarrhea, Rotavirus 25.1%, Astrovirus 7%, Norovirus 18.6% (2003)
Adenoviruses are found in 6.2% of pediatric patients with acute diarrhea (2005)
Noroviruses account for 10.4% of hospitalized pediatric gastroenteritis cases in northern Italy (2002)
Noroviruses were the most frequently involved viruses (23.7%) in sporadic acute diarrhea among hospitalized children and were more common in children >5 years (37%) than in children <5 years (10%). The frequency of Rotavirus, enteric Adenovirus and Astrovirus was 12.2%, 1.6% and 2.4%, respectively. (Brescia, 2007 publication)
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GIDEON what's new: June 25 to June 26, 2009
GIDEON what's new: June 23 to June 25, 2009
A recent episode of E. coli infection in Ontario belies the fact that onions are only rarely implicated in food-related disease outbreaks. As of June 2009, 8,471 infectious diseases outbreaks have been included in GIDEON. Onions were involved in only seven (0.08%) of these:
1983 – United States – Botulism – 28 – sauteed onions
1996 to 1997 – United States – Hepatitis A – 90 – green onions
1997 – United States – Cryptosporidiosis – 54 – green onions
1998 – United States – Hepatitis A – 43 – green onions
2003 – United States – Hepatitis A – 170 – green onions
2005 – Russia – Yersinia pseudotuberculosis – 33 – cabbage and onion salads.
2006 – United States – E. coli O157 – 99 – either green onions or shredded lettuce
GIDEON what's new: June 20 to June 23, 2009
GIDEON what's new: June 19 to June 20, 2009
GIDEON what's new: June 18 to June 19, 2009
GIDEON what's new: June 16 to June 18, 2009