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BIOHAZARD OUTBREAK LINKS 2008-2011 = 1,627
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December 2008
- 100 birds killed because of bird flu in Bangladesh (23 December 2008)
- 42 sickened by tainted food in Lawrence, Illinois (23 December 2008)
- Dengue fever kills 2 and infects 18 in Kaloria, India (22 December 2008)
- Kingella kingae infecting toddlers in Israel (21 December 2008)
- 7 infected and ward closed because of C. difficile in Niagara, Ontario (20 December 2008)
- Norovirus infects 50 people in 9 counties in North Carolina (20 December 2008)
- Flu causing 40 cases per 100,000 people in Britain (20 December 2008)
- 2 horses test positive for contagious equine metritis (CEM) in Kentucky (20 December 2008)
- 68 die of bubonic plague in Uganda (20 December 2008)
- Stilton cheese may contain listeria in Canada (20 December 2008)
- Sausage may contain listeria in Canada (20 December 2008)
- Cryptosporidium found in drinking water in Aboyne, Scotland (19 December 2008)
- 2 children die and 111 infected by an outbreak of diarrhea in San Francisco, Philippines (19 December 2008)
- 45 infected by dengue fever in Cairns, Australia (19 December 2008)
- Coliform bacteria close swimming pool in Grand Traverse, Michigan (19 December 2008)
- Buck on a hunting preserve tests positive for chronic wasting disease in Jefferson, Colorado (19 December 2008)
- 140 infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Wake, North Carolina (19 December 2008)
- Child dies of E. coli in Dixon, California (19 December 2008)
- C. difficile causes 7 new cases and closes a hospital ward in Armagh, Ireland (18 December 2008)
- 18,000 of birds culled because of bird flu in Taiwan (18 December 2008)
- Distemper virus hits Pasco, Florida (18 December 2008)
- Certain meat products may contain listeria (18 December 2008)
- 370,000 birds culled because of bird flu in China (17 December 2008)
- Man infected and 320 ducks and chickens culled because of bird flu in Cambodia (17 December 2008)
- Bird flu spreads to West Bengal, India (17 December 2008)
- Many dying from preventable diseases like malaria and diarrhea because of war in Congo (17 December 2008)
- A third of the deer tested were positive for wasting disease in Boulder, Colorado (17 December 2008)
- 50 diagnosed with repertory syncytial virus (RSV) in Oklahoma (17 December 2008)
- 13 infected by Shingella in Columbus, Ohio (17 December 2008)
- Certain pork and chicken products may contain listeria in Canada (17 December 2008)
- 24 die of meningitis in Sokoto, Nigeria (17 December 2008)
- 50 children infected by chicken pox in Port Orange, Florida (12 December 2008)
- Over 80,000 chickens culled because of bird flu in Hong Kong (10 December 2008)
- Whooping cough cases rising in Indiana (10 December 2008)
- Stilton cheese may contain listeria in Canada (10 December 2008)
- Horse tests positive for equine herpesvirus-1 in Kent County, Delaware (09 December 2008)
- 8 children infected with chicken pox in New Hampshire (08 December 2008)
- Hepatitis C outbreak and exposure caused by doctors and nurses in Nevada (08 December 2008)
- Baby food may contain Colstridium botulinum following an illness outbreak in Denmark (08 December 2008)
- Coliform bacteria found in drinking water in Post Falls, Idaho (05 December 2008)
- HIV may have been exposed to 50 teens at a high school in St. Louis, Missouri (05 December 2008)
- Tuberculosis outbreak affects 16 homeless people in Santa Barbara, California (05 December 2008)
- Norovirus infects up to 24 people in a bowling alley in Marshall, Michigan (05 December 2008)
- Whooping cough outbreak affects at least 8 in elementary school in Greene, North Carolina (05 December 2008)
- Boil water advisory ordered because of E. coli in Dixon, Nebraska (04 December 2008)
- Malignant catarrhal fever killed 19 cows in Puyallup, Washington (04 December 2008)
- South African man dies of arena virus while in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (03 December 2008)
- An unusual strain of mad cow disease more virulent than regular strain (03 December 2008)
- 20 pigs killed because of hog cholera in Leyte, Philippines (02 December 2008)
- Leptospirosis kills 1 and suspected in others in the 116 deaths from flood-tainted water in Brazil (02 December 2008)
- Enterobacter sakazakii kills 1 baby and hospitalizes another in Otero and Lea, New Mexico (02 December 2008)
- High school closed because of Coliform bacteria in water in New Hampshire (02 December 2008)
- 2 infected by West Nile virus in San Diego, California (02 December 2008)
- 40.000 poultry culled because of bird flu in Assam, India (01 December 2008)
- 1 in 10 doctors may no long provide money-losing vaccines which can contribute to resurgence of measles and other infectious diseases in the US (01 December 2008)
- Bacteria found in water at a school in Edinburgh, UK (01 December 2008)
- Study finds 10 times as many types of bacteria in the human bowel than previously thought (01 December 2008)
- Study finds that paper money carries more bacteria then a toilet seat and that the flu virus can live on paper money for 17 days (01 December 2008)
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