The Minnesota Department of Health and pediatricians around the state are working together to ensure children receive the flu vaccine this season. The recommendation follows CDC’s report on data collected from the National Immunization Survey, which calls last year’s deadly flu season one of the worst in recent history.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Center for Animal Health and Food Safety are working with the Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the Minnesota Department of Health to learn which Salmonella strains are emerging in the Midwest.
It’s important to understand how animals, humans, and the environment play a part in AMR genes. Through a partnership with the Minnesota Department of Health, CAHFS and the VDL are conducting new research.
Communities of scientists, practitioners, food producers, and health professionals around the globe are working to better understand the implications of antimicrobial use and resistance.
For millennia, humankind has used antibiotics to treat infections empirically, even before knowing those infections were caused by bacteria—or that bacteria existed. Yet, as antimicrobials have flourished, so too has antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, leading to a prediction that by 2050 over 10 million people will die annually due to AMR.
Noelle Noyes uses her background in social sciences, business, and veterinary epidemiology to bridge the gap between researchers and farmers. “I'm very adamant about making sure my research has some connection to actual problems producers are facing."
The CDC confirmed that rural Americans generally experience more health disparaties than urban and suburban Americans, and that the gap in suicide rates between rural and urban Americans has widened since 1999.
José Manuel Sánchez Vizcaíno will join CAHFS for the next event in the Hueston Speaker Series on Wednesday, October 17 with a talk titled "African Swine Fever is the current threat of the world swine industry. Is it possible to control the spread of this disease?"
Last week, Cargill recalled over 132,000 pounds of ground beef. Although the CDC has declared the outbreak over, it warns that ground beef products produced and packaged on June 21, 2018 could be contaminated.
Practitioners, scientists, allied industry personnel, and producers in the US have the opportunity to submit information on swine disease outbreaks and epidemics happening worldwide using the spontaneous reporting tool.
