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ESCHERICHIA COLI O157, RESTAURANT - USA (NORTH CAROLINA): CAPRINE ORIGIN SUSPECTED

Date: Tue 19 Jun 2007
Source: Charlotte (NC) Observer [edited] Health officials closed a China Grove, NC, restaurant linked to a deadly _Escherichia coli_ outbreak on Mon 18 Jun 2007 after learning some employees slaughtered a goat there ( Read more... )

1. Yesterday I ran out of milk. This is a "can't happen" in my household because I put milk in my coffee. Without milk there is no coffee, and a day without coffee is like night. When I staggered into the kitchen I realized how screwed I was. I knew I had some chocolate covered espresso beans in the fridge, but that wouldn't be a complete solution. ( Read more... )

The Fish List is gone. Or at least its home page is, and points back to the Seafood Choices site. The list itself remains, but I don't know when it was last updated ( Read more... )

...until the entire juvenile population is obese and diabetic! Our next step is drinking the Coke through a piece of candy.

Public health dorks and others interested in issues of disease, public health, and complete and utter pants-filling terror may be interested in the MMWR feed I just created, which is from the Centers for Disease Control's canonical Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The MMWR summarizes various aspects of doom in the U.S. and elsewhere and has other ( Read more... )