An E. coli outbreak in Belgium with more than 70 cases and nine deaths has been linked to ground beef.
The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has raised concerns about the increasing number of Salmonella and Campylobacter infections.
The FSA said recent data has confirmed suspected threshold breaches for Salmonella and
Almost 50 confirmed E. coli infections and several deaths have been reported in eight nursing homes in a region of Belgium.
In Flanders, it has been confirmed that 48 patients
About 20 residents of six nursing homes in Belgium have fallen ill after being infected with E. coli.
Local media reported five people had died but it was not certain
Recently released data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has shown another rise in E. coli infections in England in 2024.
Overall, 2,544 cultured-confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing
More than 2,000 cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) were reported in England in 2022, an increase of almost 80 percent from the year before.
According to the
A long-awaited report into one of the largest E. coli O157 outbreaks in the United Kingdom has finally been published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
In the 2022
Seven E. coli and 13 Cryptosporidium outbreak investigations in England and Wales required APHA assistance in 2024, according to a recent report.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) was
