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UPDATE – Just got an email that said Mexico may still be in the hunt.
I can hear Lou Dobbs sobbing now, but the Cox News Service has confirmed that the salmonella-tainted tomatoes did NOT come from Mexico. They came from Florida. From the interview of Dr. David Acheson:
The epidemiological investigation has narrowed the
As I blogged about last year – “E. coli’s comeback: What’s with that?” – In 2007 in some 21 recalls, ground beef companies have recalled more than 33 million pounds of E. coli O157:H7 contaminated meat. 2008 has also seen recalls and we are just into the E. coli season. In 2007 hundreds have been
Speech at the University of Cardiff went well. Weather is like being home in Seattle. I had time to visit a few castles today that date back well over 1,000 years. I am thinking this one might well be a good base of operations for Marler Clark – especially if under siege from Corporations, Insurance
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The Michigan Department of Community Health reported 29 E. coli cases statewide so far in June, well above the average of 10 cases for the entire month the past four years. Five people have been hospitalized. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has become involved in the investigation.
Early laboratory reports, including DNA analysis,
I am still in Wales, but press reports from the USA seem to creep across the “pond.” Reading the Seattle Times online this morning it seems that Dee Creek finally got “nicked” as they say here for selling the “magical” milk. As it said, “two owners of a small Cowlitz County farm pleaded guilty Wednesday
Now, according to the CDC, since April, 383 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint have been identified in 30 states and the District of Columbia: Arkansas (2 persons), Arizona (26), California (8), Colorado (2), Connecticut (2), Florida (1), Georgia (8), Idaho (3), Illinois (34), Indiana (8), Kansas (9), Kentucky (1), Maryland
I finished my lecture at the Royal Institute of Public Health in London where I received a John Snow tie, coffee mug and label pin (also inducted into the John Snow Society). On the drive to Cardiff, Wales we stopped to see some rather interesting rocks:
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According to Ohio Health officials, Eleven cases of illness due to E. coli bacteria have been reported in central Ohio over the past two weeks. Five of the reports are from Columbus, two from elsewhere in Franklin County, three from the east in Fairfield County, and one from the north in Delaware County. So far
The CDC reports that since April, 277 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint have been identified in 28 states and the District of Columbia: Arkansas (2 persons), Arizona (19), California (6), Colorado (1), Connecticut (2), Florida (1), Georgia (7), Idaho (3), Illinois (34), Indiana (7), Kansas (8), Kentucky (1), Maryland (1),
According to the CDC, for every one person who is a stool-culture positive victim of salmonella in the United States, there a multiple of 38.5 who are also sick, but remain uncounted. (See, AC Voetsch, “FoodNet estimate of the burden of illness caused by nontyphoidal Salmonella infections in the United States,”Clinical Infectious Diseases 2004;38 (Suppl
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