The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) reported Wednesday the first fatality from the deadly bacteria Listeria monocytogenes while 16 people in four provinces suffered listeriosis.

The outbreak is not yet linked to a contaminated batch of roast and corned beef ordered recalled last week by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). But Maple Leaf Consumer Foods, supplier of Sure Slice brand packaged beef, expanded the recall to include its other ready-to-eat deli meats manufactured since June 2. The meat products were distributed to fast food restaurants, institutions, nursing homes, hospitals and supermarket delis across Canada

Eating roast beef and corned beef with Maple Leaf Consumer Foods labels may be dangerous to your health, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIC) warned Monday.

One-kilogram packages of Sure Slice Roast Beef with a best-before date of Aug. 9 and Sure Slice Corned Beef with an expiration date of Aug. 23 have already been recalled by Maple Leaf from restaurants, hospitals and nursing homes, but the CFIC is taking extra precautions with its alert after listeria bacteria was found in the meat products

The father of an 18-year old schizophrenic mentally retarded girl raped by a nursing home resident is battling for legislation that would mandate posting the names of residents with sex offense records.

Ray McDaniel pushed for the bill, which has been adopted by the Ohio House and is waiting for a Senate hearing. He supports every state requiring its staff to disclose the presence of sex offenders among residents. He hopes this would prevent a repeat of what happened to his daughter, who was abused by a 43-year old male resident, now serving time in prison

More than 4,000 people in Denmark may be infected with salmonella in what may become the worst outbreak there in 15 years, health officials said Wednesday.

Urgent checks are being conducted to find the source of a salmonella outbreak that officials say may be caused by a food product distributed only in Denmark but no single source has yet been named

Over 27,000 hospitals, nursing homes and doctors collected Medicare payments even as they collectively owed the Internal Revenue Service more than $2 billion in unpaid taxes, a Government Accountability Office report has found.

The report pointed out that some of those who owed the government back taxes live a life of luxury as proven by their ownership of million-dollar homes and luxury vehicles