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FPSA - Rare pathogen in rice behind outbreak in China

Summary by FPSA
Contaminated rice was the source of an outbreak in China caused by a rare pathogen. Bacillus paranthracis belongs to the Bacillus cereus group. However, globally reported outbreaks remain rare and the genomic characteristics of outbreak isolates are seldom characterized. An epidemiological and genomic investigation was done to understand the cause of a foodborne outbreak in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, in July 2024, with nine patients confirmed. R…
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FPSA broke the news in on Saturday, August 23, 2025.
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