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Food safety is serious business in Texas. There are approximately 2,000 Registered Sanitarians in the Lone Star State whose efforts are dedicated toward the elimination of foodborne illness through personal and professional excellence.
Texas Public Health Solutions, LLC created a niche business in North Texas in 2018 doing exactly this – working hard to protect the health of Texans through education and guidance. Read more
Since our last update regarding the Salmonella outbreak, the CDC has finally identified the culpable food item — raw onions.
Of the 808 people infected with Salmonella Oranienburg throughout the country, 23% were from Texas, by far the most of any state.
Sick people range in age from less than 1 year to 101 years, with a median age of 37, and 57% are female. Of 505 people with information available, 31% have been hospitalized.
Please read the FDA’s recall notice for red, yellow, and white onions imported from the State of Chihuahua, Mexico between July 1, 2021 and August 31, 2021. Read more
As of October 14, 2021, 149 TEXANS have been infected with Salmonella Oranienburg according to the CDC.
This is the most of any state in the country. Unfortunately, the investigation has not yet identified a food linked to the illness.
The CDC also announced that a total of 592 people have been infected with Salmonella Oranienburg from a total of 36 states. Texas accounts for 25% of the infections nationally. Read more
What are Nonpharmaceutical Interventions and how can they help combat a coronavirus pandemic?
Simply put, Nonpharmaceutical Interventions, or NPIs for short, are personal protective measures such as covering coughs and sneezes, community measures such as temporarily closing schools, and environmental measures such as cleaning frequently touched surfaces and objects.
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (now referred to as NPIs from this point forward) are definitive actions, apart from getting vaccinated and taking medicine, which people and communities can take to help slow the spread of respiratory illnesses like coronavirus or the flu.
The CDC even has a whole website dedicated to NPIs.
Journalists have offered multitude opinions on how best to protect yourself and your family from a coronavirus outbreak, but TexasPHS thought that we would take a different approach to educate our readers on a possible coronavirus pandemic — via a quiz. Read more
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