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Egg Recall List Expanded:FDA Recalls 380 Million Eggs – Salmonella Eggs

Egg Recall List Expanded:FDA Recalls 380 Million Eggs – Salmonella Eggs

Egg Recall List Expanded:FDA Recalls 380 Million Eggs – Salmonella Eggs – Egg recall list expands. Check your eggs again. The egg recall list has expanded. If you are worried that you may have purchased some infected eggs, now is the time to check as a number of companies have been both added and removed [...]

Hearing Problems On The Rise For Teenagers: What Is The Cause?

Hearing Problems On The Rise For Teenagers: What Is The Cause?

Teenage hearing loss is on the rise, and the digital revolution’s introduction of the iPod, coupled with new style ear buds are being blamed for the frightening trend. Between the years of 1988 to 1994, the percentage of teenage hearing problems was around 15%. This has risen to 19.5% in the years of 2005 to [...]

Salmonella Symptoms Explained after Eggs Recall News

Salmonella Symptoms Explained after Eggs Recall News

Salmonella Symptoms Explained after Eggs Recall News – Do you feel like you might be suffering from salmonella symptoms? There are more than 2,000 strains of the bacteria, but only a dozen or so of those strains actually make people sick. In most cases, salmonella poisoning results in gastroenteritis, which is a severe stomach illness. [...]

Gulf Oil Spill Seafood: Intense Testing

Gulf Oil Spill Seafood: Intense Testing

After the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, much of the seafood having to be tested for traces for oil on a level unprecedented. Fish, shrimp and other catches are being put under the microscope in a ‘CSI’ like environment to find out and reassure the public that the seafood is safe and ready [...]

Egg Recall 2010: Salmonella Eggs in Eight State

Egg Recall 2010: Salmonella Eggs in Eight State

Egg Recall 2010: Salmonella Eggs in Eight State – An egg recall has been made by an Iowa based egg company receiving reports of Salmonella illnesses in California, Colorado, and Nevada. The Federal Government is currently investigating the recall and the company, to find out what has happened, what the causes were and what the [...]

Higher Cancer Rates in Poorer Countries

Higher Cancer Rates in Poorer Countries

People in poorer countries are starting to have higher rates of cancer, according to he medical journal The Lancet. Many of the deaths caused by cancer in these areas are able to be prevented at a relatively low cost, and should be treated as seriously as the HIV/AIDS problem is in these areas. “It’s not [...]

China Tainted Milk: Infant Girls Growing Breasts?

China Tainted Milk: Infant Girls Growing Breasts?

The Chinese government is currently investigating a company that provides a brand of powdered milk that reportedly is tainted and is blamed for causing little girls to experience puberty prematurely and start to grow breasts at a very young age. The milk was started just over two years ago, and was later discovered to have [...]

Fresh Express Salad New Recall

Fresh Express Salad New Recall

Fresh Express Salad New Recall – Fresh Express, who make bagged salads, have announced yet another recall, the third in a three month period related to microorganisms found in their food. This latest incident involves a positive test for Listeria in bags of Veggie Lover’s salads. It follows two other cases, one of e coli [...]

Medical Tourism Linked to Spread of Drug Resistant Bacteria NDM-1

Medical Tourism Linked to Spread of Drug Resistant Bacteria NDM-1

Medical Tourism Linked to Spread of Drug Resistant Bacteria NDM-1 – People who travel from the UK to India or Pakistan may be bringing back a dangerous bacteria to the West, which is resistant to almost all antibiotics. According to a study by Cardiff University, doctors have been seeing a specific strain of bacteria in [...]

Dutch Woman Admits to Infanticide, 4 Bodies Found

Dutch Woman Admits to Infanticide, 4 Bodies Found

An unnamed 25-year-old woman was arrested last week after a man called police to report a woman who appeared to be pregnant several times over the years, but produced no children. Upon speaking to the woman, she claimed that she had been pregnant but adopted the children to other families. But police became suspicious after [...]

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