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Jun 29, 2009

The Food and Drug Administration says a sample of raw cookie dough collected at a Nestle USA manufacturing plant last week has tested positive for E. coli.

Jun 17, 2009

The World Health Organization has raised the pandemic threat level to six, but the C.D.C. says the declaration will have little effect in the U.S.

Jun 16, 2009 | 14 comments

Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday.

May 14, 2009 | 6 comments

Influenza experts worry that the spring outbreak of swine flu in North America could be followed by a second wave of more severe infections and illnesses next fall and winter.

May 7, 2009

The US may add swine flu shots to seasonal inoculation as health officials fear the new H1N1 virus could wreak havoc during regular flu season.

Jun 3, 2009 | 7 comments

Swine flu cases are erupting worldwide. The WHO raised the alert level to a phase 5, one level short of declaring a full pandemic.

May 7, 2009 | 13 comments

U.S. officials said Monday that it's too early to say the swine-flu threat is receding, even though there are some signs the outbreak may not be as serious as originally feared.

May 7, 2009 | 2 comments

Tips to avoid swine flu, and how to know whether your illness should send you to the hospital.

May 7, 2009 | 3 comments

Mystery illness fails to deliver on havoc-wreaking potential.

May 7, 2009

Now that the swine flu virus has passed from a farmworker to pigs, could it jump back to people? The question is important, because crossing species again could make it more deadly.

May 7, 2009 | 10 comments

Texas state health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident from the virus.

Apr 17, 2009

Every year, more than 1,500 people receive kidneys, livers, and hearts that have been donated for transplantation. But with more than 8,000 New Yorkers still on waiting lists, the need for organ...

Mar 31, 2009 | 17 comments

Consumers should stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination, Federal food safety officials warned last night.

Mar 13, 2009 | 3 comments

Half of new cases of peanut-linked salmonella infections are showing up in people who ate recalled Austin or Keebler crackers, raising worries that not everyone got the message.

Feb 24, 2009 | 1 comment

Detecting salmonella illnesses linked to tainted peanuts might have gone faster, except that only two-thirds of states require labs to submit samples for DNA tests that signal national outbreaks.

Feb 17, 2009

The peanut recall is hitting food banks hard -- at a time when their services are needed more than ever.

Feb 15, 2009 | 155 comments

On-going list of Peanut Butter products recalled due to Salmonella outbreak.

Feb 12, 2009

A relief package sent to troops overseas may have contained tainted peanut products.

Feb 12, 2009

Another death is reported as a peanut company owner asserts his Fifth Amendment rights in the salmonella probe.

Feb 11, 2009 | 1 comment

With attention focused on the danger of salmonella in tainted peanut products, it’s easy to forget that the infection more often results from eating contaminated meat, poultry or eggs.

Feb 11, 2009 | 1 comment

As food banks throw out hundreds of pounds of peanut butter products, Congress is meeting to discuss a possible overhaul of federal and state food safety.

Feb 11, 2009 | 4 comments

Private lab tests show there may have been salmonella at the Texas plant operated by the peanut company at the center of a national outbreak.

Feb 10, 2009

Conditions at the Peanut Corporation of America were just one element in the outbreak of salmonella.

Feb 18, 2009 | 2 comments

Previously, the Food and Drug Administration had said Peanut Corp. of America retested products after getting an initial positive result for salmonella, and only then shipped them.