Resources with keywords: Other Emerging Pathogens
Following the completion of distributor tracebacks for imported fresh jalapeño peppers from Mexico, FDA and CDC maintain post-recall surveillance across commercial retail and food service chains. Cumulative cases stand at 431 illnesses and 57 hospitalizations across 32 states. Diagnostic microbiology laboratories isolating Salmonella strains must maintain standard BSL-2 containment, standard enteric pathogen precautions, and engineering controls to prevent cross-contamination or accidental laboratory ingestion.
Outbreak response, worker awareness, etc.
The NYC Health Department has finished investigating a community cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in Central Harlem. As of August 29, there were: 114 confirmed cases, 90 total hospitalizations, 7 deaths.
Ching SJ, Jung GO, Osuna A, et al.
Bacterial conjunctivitis is uncommon in immunocompetent adults. Neisseria meningitidis is an unusual bacterial cause of conjunctivitis.
The U.S. has confirmed its first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite whose northward creep from South America has put the country’s cattle industry on high alert in recent months.
