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Antimicrobial resistance

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.

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) asked for help last week to find an unidentified woman who dropped off two dead bats at the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center in St. Paul for rabies testing and left before her information could be collected. Both bats tested positive for rabies.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture issued an advisory last week regarding ice cream mix distributed by Autumnwood Farm of Forest Lake, Minnesota. The ice cream mix had been improperly pasteurized since May 16.

Petri-dish grown meat, or cultured meat, or possibly clean meat, or in vitro meat is coming, whether you like it or not. There has been so much progress in the field, that it’s pretty clear these product will end up in our grocery stores eventually.

Tick activity has had a slow start this summer, but due to the rain and warm temperatures recently, tick activity is expected to increase into July.

A bat found from a park next to lake Como in St Paul, Minnesota has tested positive for rabies. The woman who handled the animal is getting rabies prevention shots.

This semester on the St. Paul Campus, CAHFS will present Webcast viewings of the events in the lecture series Antibiotic Resistance: Policy Challenges & Solutions, provided by the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences. The third event, “Antibiotic Resistance Policy Challenges and Solutions," is April 3rd.

Minnesota’s Attorney General had been seeking $5 billion in damages from 3M to help clean up the company’s disposal of industrial chemicals in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area over the past 40 years.