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Article by Dana Cole from The Sierra Vista Herald - Full Story

SIERRA VISTA — A team of health professionals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in Sierra Vista to assist with an investigation that has been frustrating state and local health officials.

A salmonella outbreak that started on Sept. 1 has spiraled to 45 cases, with no answer as to the cause or mode of transmission. State and local health officials have been working together for months in an effort to isolate the source of the problem, only to hit a dead end. Dr. Nicholas H. Gaffga, a CDC epidemiologist who is part of the investigative team out of Atlanta, held a press conference at the Sierra Vista county health office Friday to answer questions about the agency’s role in the investigation.

“We have come here to assist the Cochise County Health Department,” Gaffga said.

Typically, outbreak investigations don’t take this long to resolve.

“It is uncommon to go this far into an outbreak without finding a source,” he said.

While there have been a number of leads, it’s been impossible to come up with a commonality that would provide answers health officials are seeking.

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Dana Cole of the Sierra Vista Herald Review reports:

A team of health professionals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in Sierra Vista, Arizona to assist with an investigation that has been frustrating state and local health officials.

A salmonella outbreak that started on Sept. 1 has spiraled to 45 cases, with no answer as to the cause or mode of transmission. State and local health officials have been working together for months in an effort to isolate the source of the problem, only to hit a dead end.

During the months that local and state health officials have been researching the outbreak, they have canvassed restaurants, schools, daycare facilities, nursing homes and cafeterias. Water testing also was done.

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The Sierra Vista Herald has reported that there have been seven confirmed cases of salmonella in the area.  Health officials are still investigating the source of the outbreak.

SIERRA VISTA, AZ — In the past week and a half, seven confirmed salmonella  cases have been reported in the Sierra Vista area. Health officials  have not been able to identify the source of the outbreak.
“We’re investigating the problem to get as much information as possible and we’ve been reporting it to the state,” said Karla Jensen, spokeswoman for the county health department. “People are filling out  
information forms for us and the state is helping with the investigation.” Of the seven cases, two have been serotyped as Oranienburg, the same kind of salmonella that had been reported in another outbreak during the fall months. The other five cases have been serotyped as Enteridis, Jensen said.

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More cases of Salmonella have been reported in the Sierra Vista area of Arizona:

State health officials confirmed three more salmonella cases in the Sierra Vista area, raising the number investigated to 24.
The cause of the outbreak remains unknown.
A cluster of salmonella was first identified last week in the area when 20 confirmed cases were reported, mostly in young children and adults.
Health officials said it can cause such symptoms as inflammation of the intestine or colon, fever and a presence of bacteria in the blood, along with bloody diarrhea.

 

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