A Butler County woman yesterday sued Wheeling, West Virginia based Coronet Foods in U.S. District Court, saying she got sick from salmonella poisoning after eating tomatoes Coronet supplied to a Sheetz store.
Torsten Ove of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that It was the second federal lawsuit filed over the salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds
The number of salmonella cases in Pennsylvania linked to a regional outbreak continues to rise.
The state Department of Health reported in a Pittsburg Post-Gazette article by Christopher Snowbeck yesterday that 260 Pennsylvanians have been sickened in the outbreak thus far — up 50 from Friday. At that time, health officials in West Virginia, Maryland
A study of the salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 250 customers at Sheetz convenience stores suggests that Roma tomatoes were the source of the infection, the state Department of Health said yesterday in a Pittsburg Post-Gazette interview with Christopher Snowbeck.
The state compared the food histories of about 50 people who ate at Sheetz
If experience from other outbreaks holds true, the more than 200 people sickened during this month’s salmonella outbreak shouldn’t hold their breath waiting for the original source of the contamination to be pinpointed theorizes Christopher Snowbeck in a report for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Past experience with salmonella outbreaks indicates that the original source of the
As the investigation continues into the cause of a salmonella outbreak affecting at least 188 people in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the number of suspected cases are on the rise as 13 Ohioians have become ill possibly as the result of eating contaminated produce from a Sheetz convenience store reports Bethany Holstein of Wire Dispatches.
The number of Pennsylvanians sickened in a regional salmonella outbreak increased to 210 today, the state Department of Health reported.
Maryland and Ohio officials are reporting a combined 49 cases of salmonella among people who recently ate at Sheetz convenience stores, the chain where people in Pennsylvania were exposed to salmonella through food says Christopher
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has begun trying to find the sources of the tomatoes used in sandwiches at Sheetz convenience stores to determine what might have caused a regional salmonella outbreak.
FDA is moving ahead with the tomato search — called a "trace-back" — even though public health officials haven’t yet determined whether
The number of Pennsylvanians sickened in a regional salmonella outbreak now stands at 130, the state Department of Health reported this afternoon.
The 130 cases in Pennsylvania are spread out among 31 counties. Seven counties including Butler and Westmoreland have at least five residents who have taken ill in the outbreak. Another 24 counties including
As the number of confirmed salmonellosis outbreak victims grew to 172 Tuesday, state and federal investigators tried to unravel the far-reaching outbreak and its causes.
State and federal investigators worked to contain the far-reaching salmonellosis outbreak as he number reached 172 victims Tuesday.
"We will take care of people who got sick," vowed Steve Sheetz
A salmonella outbreak linked to Sheetz convenience stores in Pennsylvania may have crossed the line into Ohio reports Beacon Journal medical writer Tracy Wheeler.
The Ohio Department of Health is reporting thirteen laboratory-confirmed cases of salmonella in people who had eaten at Sheetz. However, as of Tuesday afternoon, just two of those thirteen cases were