An outbreak control team has been looking into the cases and a special helpline has been set up to give advice.
The Scottish government said it was important to remember that closing wards was an outbreak control measure, designed to minimise further spread.
The Scottish government has said it was important to remember that closing wards was an outbreak control measure, designed to minimise further spread.
So far they have not been admitted to hospital but an outbreak control team set up tests to determine if the disease had spread.
However Prof Pennington did praise the work of the outbreak control team, saying they reacted quickly to remove cooked meats from the food chain.
Strict security measures have been put in place to keep the outbreak under control.
The WHO says Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada have now got the Sars outbreak under control.
Vet Tom Campbell said he was "fairly confident" the outbreak was under control.
The chairman of the National Pig Association John Godfrey told reporters after the meeting that he now believed the outbreak was under control.
The report said there was an "unacceptable delay" in taking steps to control the outbreak.
And if the scientists had said that closing the border ... would be a wise thing to do to control the outbreak, we could have taken some steps.
Michael O'Leary, head of WHO's office in China, told reporters in Beijing on Monday that the international health organization had confidence in China's efforts to track and control the outbreak of H7N9 infections, but that growing interest in the virus globally has prompted WHO to consider sending a team.
Cuban health officials allowed a CNN crew to be the first media to film in the hospital and speak with doctors there about the ongoing effort to control the cholera outbreak.
For example, one of his employees in South Africa, who died of AIDS, had written a poem condemning the South African government for not doing more to gain control of the outbreak.
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However, Public Health Wales (PHW) has warned that despite those immunisations the outbreak has not been brought under control.
Prevention of a disease outbreak is the most important means of control and requires a proactive approach.
Authorities say that it was contained, and that another outbreak this month in Havana is under control.
Currently, the methods used to assess an infection by America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention lag an outbreak by a week or two.
It goes on to say that although the precise mechanism by which the food came to be contaminated cannot be established, "the outbreak revealed a failure of routine hazard control systems within the kitchen".
Although the cholera epidemic was declared under control last month, a renewed outbreak is likely, international health officials have said.
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Saudi Arabia's news media have largely played down the outbreak, repeating government assertions that it was under control.
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The new cases expanded the outbreak to six states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The outbreak affected unclassified documents, and did not impact any command or control capability, Maj.
On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a response plan for any potential outbreak.
Tennessee has been the hardest-hit state in the meningitis outbreak, with 70 cases as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Whether it's a deliberate attack, as with anthrax, or the outbreak of a slow and silent killer such as HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in the forefront of America's defense.
Atlanta (CNN) -- Federal and state health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak in 19 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On September 14th the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta issued the first of several daily alerts concerning an outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7, a potentially lethal pathogen typically associated with adulterated beef.
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The number of lives claimed in the United States by cantaloupes contaminated with a dangerous bacteria climbed to 29 this week, making the 28-state wide outbreak outbreak of listeriosis the deadliest in the United States since 1985, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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