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An international team found a vast increase in resistance to antifungal drugs worldwide over the past 30-40 years. Fungal infections had some of the highest mortality rates of infectious diseases. Prof Matthew Fisher, professor of epidemiology at Imperial College London, said this was probably down to farmers spraying their affected crops with the same drugs used to treat fungal infections in patients. The review said improvements were needed in how existing drugs were used, as well as an increased focus on the discovery of new treatments, in order to avoid a “global collapse” in the fight against fungal infections. Prof Sarah Gurr, from the University of Exeter, said: “Emerging resistance to antifungal drugs has largely gone under the radar, but without intervention, fungal conditions affecting humans, animals, and plants will become increasingly difficult to counteract.” @ http://www.bbc.com/news/health-44160730

According to Newton and Rockdale County Health Departments, in Georgia, 70 people got sick and 4 were hospitalized in a Salmonella outbreak in Newton County. According to Alana Sulka, director of Epidemiology and Community Health with the Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale County Health Departments, in Georgia, the outbreak was first reported to their office on May 4. He said that the Health Department is still investigating the outbreak, including “identifying the source and commonalities among those that are ill.” Micheal Geoffroy, an attorney in Conyers and Covington, said he is representing several people who were sickened as a result of the outbreak. One of those who became ill was an infant who was infected through breast milk, he said. @ http://www.rockdalenewtoncitizen.com/news/local/newton/as-many-as-people-sickened-in-salmonella-outbreak-in-newton/article_095fa2b5-c1e5-58c3-ae21-485cf239c741.html

More than 67% of the shellfish sold in the UK is infected with norovirus, according to new findings from two studies. Contaminated oysters poison 11,800 cases /year of norovirus in the UK researchers at the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences on Anglesey found. In another study, scientists at the Center for Environmental, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences (CEFAS) looked at 630 samples sold in supermarkets over 12 months. According to this study, the virus had been present in 69% of samples. There were 145 norovirus outbreaks across England between January and March of this year. These findings did not prevent David Jarrad from the Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB) to refute the findings and insists: “You’re more likely to get ill from eating salad than oysters.”@ https://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=5-2018&day=16&id=97295&l=e&country=&special=&ndb=1&df=0

More than 67% of the shellfish sold in the UK is infected with norovirus, according to new findings from two studies. Contaminated oysters poison 11,800 cases /year of norovirus in the UK researchers at the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences on Anglesey found. In another study, scientists at the Center for Environmental, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences (CEFAS) looked at 630 samples sold in supermarkets over 12 months. According to this study, the virus had been present in 69% of samples. There were 145 norovirus outbreaks across England between January and March of this year. These findings did not prevent David Jarrad from the Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB) to refute the findings and insists: “You’re more likely to get ill from eating salad than oysters.”
@ https://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=5-2018&day=16&id=97295&l=e&country=&special=&ndb=1&df=0