Public health officials traced a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kentucky back to one unvaccinated health care professional at the facility, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But because most residents were vaccinated, few of them were infected—and even fewer developed symptoms, the CDC said.The COVID-19…
If you’re reading this and you are a human being who lived through 2020, you already know that the past year has been stressful. For people with bipolar disorder, managing the stress of living through a global pandemic is particularly important to avoid dramatic mood changes. And mothers with bipolar disorder had the added challenges…
Social distancing to combat COVID-19 has led to a decrease in foodborne infections in Spain, according to researchers. Data from the Epidemiological Surveillance Network in Madrid covering January 2020 to late June 2020, which overlaps with the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, shows that compared with the first half of 2019, there was a marked…
The non-compliance rate for pesticides in foods decreased in 2019, according to a report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The report is based on data from official national controls done by EU member states, Iceland and Norway. For 2019, 96.1 percent of the 96,302 samples analyzed fell below the maximum residue level…
Following a weekend alert from the USDA about a Salmonella Hadar outbreak linked to ground turkey, the CDC today announced 28 people across a dozen states have been confirmed ill. The fresh ground turkey is past it’s sell-by dates so a recall is not being requested for the more than 200,000 pounds of implicated turkey,…
President Joe Biden signed a new food allergy bill into law, which could have significant benefits for people who have severe food allergies. The Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education and Research (FASTER) Act of 2021 newly identifies sesame as a “major food allergen” that requires clear labeling by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).…
“The process of getting an accurate migraine diagnosis was one of the most confusing, fearful, and difficult periods of my life,” Natalie Sayre tells SELF. Sayre, 28, lived with chronic migraine for years before getting a diagnosis.After the onset of her first migraine when she was 19, Sayre’s migraine attacks worsened, but she had a…
If there’s one thing people living with migraine want you to know, it’s that migraine attacks are anything but just a bad headache. This is a neurological condition that can have far-reaching consequences across practically all areas of our lives.Migraine affects roughly one in six adults in the U.S., according to a 2018 study in…
Almost 20 people have fallen ill in Sweden this month from histamine poisoning in fish from Vietnam. The foodborne outbreak at the beginning of April affected 19 people in Stockholm. Guests eating tuna at three different restaurants in Stockholm reported symptoms of histamine poisoning. All three restaurants purchased frozen tuna loins with the same expiry…
A bill with the Colorado Legislature’s unanimous support for an alternative way of acquiring meat within the state has hit a snag. Before April 1, it looked like the Colorado General Assembly was about to send Senate Bill 21-079 to the governor for his signature. The new law takes effect immediately with his signature. It…