Food Scientists: don't pooh-pooh this advice: it's simple: cook the food right and wash your hands (Food Safety Network / Kansas StateUniversity/ 3/17)
Talk to us early, FDA tells bird flu companies (Reuters Health/ 3/15)
Salmonella control in turkey chillers (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)
Luna Innovations Developing Controls For Bacteria In Food (Meat and Poultry Online/ 3/15)
China to set up food safety system amid scares
(Reuters Health/ 3/12)
FMD vaccination for Turkey (MeatNews.com /3/09)
Notice to Readers: Ground Water Awareness Week, March 11--17, 2007 (CDC/ MMWR/ 3/09)
Poultry plants testing food-safety technology (MeatNews / 3/08)
How a medical producer avoids E. coli (CNN Health / 3/08)
FDA urged to OK first bird-flu vaccine (CNN Health / 2/27)
UK farm minister rejects wider poultry import bans (Reuters Health / 2/26)
EU experts back bird flu vaccine from Novartis (Reuters Health / 2/23)
Zithromax effective for traveler's diarrhea (Reuters Health/ 2/13)
Flu shot might also offer some protection against H5N1 (EurekAlert!/ 2/13)
Kansas State study finds new vaccine effective against deadly viral disease affecting swine (EurekAlert/ 2/08)
Indonesia May Sell, Not Give, Bird Flu Virus to Scientists (New York Times/ 2/07)
Early treatment may thwart mad cow-type disease (Reuters Health/2/07)
Bacteriophage approved for hide washing (FoodProductionDaily.com / 1/4)
Botulism study could lead to new vaccines and treatments to counter bioterrorist attacks (Stanford University / 12/11)
New Hope For E. coli Treatment (Tufts University / 10/19)
Company receives award for bacteriophage technology (FoodProductionDaily.com / 9/5)
FDA Says Viruses Safe for Treating Meat (USNews.com / 8/18)
Bird flu study highlights need to vaccinate flocks effectively (Eurek Alert / 8/18)
Prevention of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis Among Infants and Children (CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report / 8/11)
Radiation-killed bacteria vaccine induces broad immune response in mice (Eurek Alert / 7/25)
New Non-Invasive Vaccine Strategy May Offer Protection Against Tetanus and Anthrax (American Society for Microbiology / 6/19)
Professor's Phage-Hunters Strike Pay Dirt (NewsWise.com / 6/8)
Report focuses on the role good microbes play in future medicine (Eurek Alert / 6/8)
Full year of treatment helps infants and children with toxoplasmosis (Eurek Alert / 5/15)
New treatment for food poisoning (University of Bristol / 5/11)
Vaccine combined with short-term postexposure antibiotics protects monkeys from inhalational anthrax (Eurek Alert / 5/1)
Phages Eyed as New Way to Control Salmonella (USDA ARS / 4/28)
Plant-based vaccine protects mice against toxin (Reuters Health / 4/17)
UNITED STATES: New University of Arkansas bacterial culture reduces poultry pathogen, but researcher wants to find even better cultures. (MeatNews.com / 4/14)
RNA Interference Knocks Down Prion Genes in Livestock (NewsWise.com / 3/22)
Novel Vaccine Approach Stimulates Protective Immunity Against Listeria (NewsWise.com / 3/20)
US panel endorses rotavirus vaccine for infants (Reuters Health / 2/22)
OmniLytics Obtains First-Ever EPA Registration For Bacteriophage Usage (Meat and Poultry Online News / 2/17)
New Research Network Aims to Protect Food Supply (NewsWise.com / 2/7)
Rotavirus vaccine will protect children against a major killer worldwide (Eurek Alert / 2/3)
GM aid for pandemic flu vaccine (BBC News / 2/2)
Ricin vaccine 'shown to be safe' (BBC News / 1/31)
Scientists develop more effective bird flu vaccine for flocks (FoodProductionDaily.com / 1/31)
Web model of influenza-host lifecycles will aid scientists in creating anti-viral drugs (Eurek Alert / 1/30)
Vaccine provides 100 percent protection against avian flu virus in animal study (Eurek Alert / 1/26)
UNITED STATES: Researchers report that microbial supplements reduce E. coli load in the feces of beef cattle up to 35 percent. (MeatNews.com / 1/9)
Rotavirus Drugs Deemed Safe and Effective (New York Times / 1/5)
New technique points to safer, more efficient vaccination (Eurek Alert / 12/29)
UNITED STATES: Initial laboratory testing results indicate total eradication of the avian influenza H9N2 virus strain, but clinical testing still needs to confirm effectiveness. (MeatNews.com / 12/22)
UCF, NIH study: Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants (Eurek Alert / 12/19)
FDA looks at infant rotavirus prevention (CNN.com / 12/14)
TRAF3 Protein Is a Key Part of the Early Immune Response to Viruses (NewsWise.com / 12/13)
Develop broad spectrum defense against germ warfare: Biodefense leaps ahead of one vaccine for one germ approach (Eurek Alert / 12/9)
'Friendly' bacteria can ease stomach woes (LA Times / 12/5)
New antibody shows promise as cure for anthrax (Eurek Alert / 11/29)
Chicken vaccination can halt bird flu spread: study (Reuters Health / 11/29)
New Gene Identified for Antiviral Activity (American Society for Microbiology / 11/17)
China to Vaccinate All Its Poultry, With 5.2 Billion Flu Shots (New York Times / 11/16)
New protein discovery may have implications for treating deadly E. coli infection (Queen's University / 11/8)
Workers on daily probiotics less likely to take time off sick (Eurek Alert / 11/6)