News tagged with federal investigators
Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy
(AP)—Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommend that design changes to tent cabins and other lodging run by private concessionaires first be reviewed ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 20, 2013 |
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Congress slams US health officials on tainted drugs
US lawmakers slammed federal and state health officials Wednesday for failing to properly police a pharmacy whose tainted drugs caused a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.
Medications
Nov 15, 2012 |
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Problems at second US firm tied to meningitis outbreak
US federal health inspectors said Monday they have uncovered serious problems at a second Massachusetts pharmacy run by some of the same people whose tainted drugs caused a deadly meningitis outbreak.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 12, 2012 |
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US meningitis death toll rises to 30, officials say
The death toll from a meningitis outbreak linked to tainted drugs rose to 30 as the number of cases climbed to a whopping 419, US health officials said Monday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 05, 2012 |
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US firm loses license as tainted drug toll rises to 24
US officials revoked the license Wednesday of a Massachusetts pharmacy cited for significant sanitary violations as the toll from a meningitis outbreak tied to its tainted drugs rose to 24.
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Oct 25, 2012 |
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Dirty packing plant blamed for killer cantaloupes
A dirty packing facility at a Colorado farm was the likely source of an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupes that killed 25 people in the US since August, health authorities said Wednesday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Listeria outbreaks in produce are rare, deadly
(AP) -- An outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe that has killed as many as four people is a mystery to disease specialists who are used to seeing the pathogen in deli meats and soft cheeses.
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Sep 17, 2011 |
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