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Gotta keep ‘em separated: cohorting can be effective in limiting spread in...
Jack made it through his first child care season without much disease excitement – just a little bit of pink eye and a couple of runny noses. Child care facilities are notorious illness-spreading...
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E. coli O113 hospitalizes child in Norway
A one-year-old in Norway was hospitalized two weeks ago with E. coli O113 and is now recovering. Just four serious incidents following O113 infection have ever been recorded in Europe. The Brattås...
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Regulations do not equal enforcement, and (partly) why the other parents hate...
Sorenne starts a new kindy at the end of Jan. 2013, which is the end of summer in Brisbane. Because it’s now the beginning of summer (google schoolies and Gold Coast), I went to an information meeting...
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10 sick, two hospitalized in UK E. coli day care outbreak
Two children are in hospital after a suspected E. coli outbreak at a nursery in Cheshire. Public health officers said the children, who both go to the Chrysalis Day Nursery in Northwich, were being...
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Irish childcare facility closed due to E. coli outbreak
A childcare facility in county Cavan will remain closed until the area is cleaned following an outbreak of verotoxigenic E. coli. The Health Service Executive says that they were notified of a case of...
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Irish child care remains closed to assist E. coli cleaning
A childcare facility in Cavan remains closed for cleaning following an outbreak of E. coli over four weeks ago. In a statement to Northern Sound News, the HSE say there have been factors relating to...
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Reason to use different colored bottles: 28 children accidentally drink...
Twenty-eight children and two adults accidentally drank bleach at a day care center in Jersey City on Thursday, according to officials. The children, aged 3 and 4, were evaluated and taken from the day...
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Gettin’ shiggy wit it: There’s a lot of Shigella being shared at child care...
Unfortunately no one in the public knows exactly where though. According to the Columbia Tribune reported cases of shigellosis is more than 4 times the expected rate in the Columbia area, and most...
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Focus on poop: NZ splash parks, AUS child cares, terrible people
A mystery pool pooper – or poopers – has struck again at an Invercargill, NZ swimming pool. It is the sixth Friday in a row someone has defecated in a swimming pool at the centre. In the first instance...
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E. coli O113 hospitalizes child in Norway
A one-year-old in Norway was hospitalized two weeks ago with E. coli O113 and is now recovering. Just four serious incidents following O113 infection have ever been recorded in Europe. The Brattås...
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Power of going public: 30 children in Jerusalem daycare sick with Salmonella
Arutz Sheva of Israel National News reports that on April 30, a report was received from the mother of an infant enrolled in an Emunah daycare in Jerusalem claiming infants and toddlers in one of the...
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Proper handwashing requires proper tools
Apparently, that’s just a throw-a-way tag line, at the end of an abstract for a paper, but my observations say it’s the most important. Have paper towels, not bacterial blow dryers; have soap; and have...
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E. coli O113 hospitalizes child in Norway
A one-year-old in Norway was hospitalized two weeks ago with E. coli O113 and is now recovering. Just four serious incidents following O113 infection have ever been recorded in Europe. The Brattås...
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Bad, naughty, naughty parents: Outbreak of Salmonella saintpaul in a Scottish...
Salmonella outbreaks in childcare facilities are relatively rare, most often occurring secondary to contaminated food products or poor infection control practices. We report an outbreak of Salmonella...
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E. coli outbreak at childcare facility in mid-west Ireland
The Department of Public Health in the Mid-West is handling an E.coli outbreak at a childcare facility and is reminding the public of the danger this bacteria can pose. Verotoxigenic E. coli (VTec) is...
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