On April 26, 2010, Douglas County Health Department (DCHD) received five Salmonella positive test results from a local laboratory. This influx of positive Salmonella reports immediately caught the attention of DCHD communicable disease staff as five cases in a single day is well above the county’s typical annual number of reported Salmonella cases. There were
Salmonella Papayas Hit 106
A total of 106 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona were reported from 25 states between January 1 and August 25, 2011.
Epidemiologic, traceback, and laboratory investigations linked this outbreak to eating fresh, whole papayas imported from Mexico by Agromod Produce, Inc. of McAllen, Texas.
On July 23, 2011, Agromod Produce, Inc.
Did Cargill Salmonella Turkey Burger Kill this Dog?
CDC Updates Cargill Salmonella Numbers
Among persons for whom information is available, illnesses began on or after February 27, 2011. Ill persons range in age from less than 1 year to 89 years old, with a median age of 21 years old. Fifty-five percent are male. Among the 73 ill persons with available information, 27 (37%) have been hospitalized. One
Miss Bonnie’s Gourmet Recalls Cheese Due to Salmonella
A Virginia company is recalling a cheddar cheese spread because of fears it’s contaminated with salmonella.
Miss Bonnie’s Gourmet of Winchester is recalling its Gourmet Classic Cheddar Cheese Spread distributed between Aug. 1 and Aug. 10, with a “best-by” date of Dec. 23, 2011. The batch code number is: 0116206G113.
The recalled spread is packaged
36M Pound Salmonella Turkey Recall Touches, Carter Martinette, Louisville, Kentucky Resident
WDRB, Louisville, Kentucky reports that Carter Martinette, a Louisville woman, became sick with salmonella poisoning from the same strain of tainted turkey that forced a massive, nationwide recall.
Carter Martinette says, “I don’t know, I got two kids that eat a lot of turkey, so that definitely scares me.” WDRB News met Martinette outside the
Consumers Union Calls on USDA to Tighten Salmonella Standard In Wake of Outbreak in Ground Turkey
Asks Congress to Give USDA Recall Authority
Yonkers, N.Y.—Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, today called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to drastically tighten its present Salmonella standard, which allows almost half the samples tested at a ground turkey plant to be contaminated with this disease-causing bug. Consumers Union also called
Ruby’s Salmonella – a Parents’ nightmare – Lee / Mullen-Bagby tell the story
Lynne Terry, the food poisoning lady of the Portland Oregonian, tells the horroe story of the Lee/ Mullen-Bagby family’s nightmare – “ground turkey … put their baby Ruby in the hospital for seven days in June.”
Ten months old and eating meat only for a few weeks, Ruby was sickened by salmonella-tainted ground turkey.
WKYC Ohio interviews first Salmonella Turkey Victim, Diana Goodpasture
It’s been six weeks since Diana Goodpasture left Akron General Medical Center after being treated for Salmonella poisoning.
She says the Summit County Board of Health confirmed to her that she’s one of the cases linked to the national outbreak.
Goodpasture remembers eating a ground turkey burger and the next day experiencing
February to July 2011 Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Turkey Burger Outbreak
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) announced an advisory late Friday night (without naming states), FSIS also continues to keep the manufacturers name quiet. This despite the CDC announcing that cultures of four ground turkey samples purchased from four retail locations between March 7 and June 27, 2011 yielded Salmonella