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Health inspections reports for Houston food establishments – ranging from swanky restaurants to mom-and-pop mobile food units and everything in between such as nursing homes, grocery stores and school cafeterias – are now online.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) has detected an upsurge this month in the number of cases of listeriosis, a serious illness that can result in miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery and babies born with the life-threatening infection.
Every year, in Houston, salmonella cases increase in June.
Contributing factors and medical interventions that help reduce the toll of birth defects, pre-term labor and perinatal HIV on infant mortality rates will be the focus of a conference sponsored by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services.