From the Pennsylvania Department of Health
80 total cases
70 in PA
5 in MD
2 in NJ
3 in WV
Providing Insight on Food Poisoning Outbreaks & Litigation
Providing Insight on Food Poisoning Outbreaks & Litigation
From the Pennsylvania Department of Health
80 total cases
70 in PA
5 in MD
2 in NJ
3 in WV
Michael Hauser died last week after a heroic struggle against Listeria. He left his loving wife and family.
In past Jimmy John’s sprout E. coli and Salmonella cases, young people – especially college students – seem to have been disproportionately hit. With at least three Jimmy John’s in East Lansing, and one student sick, I wonder how many of the 2, or 7, will be part of the count.
The Michigan departments…
So says Jimmy himself:
“I agree wich ya, we no longer serve sprouts, sprout supplies were inconsistent.”
I guess so.
Multistate Jimmy John’s Restaurants Raw Clover Sprouts 2011
14 Sickened (possibly 19) – On February 15, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control announced an ongoing investigation into illnesses linked to the consumption of raw clover…
Romney does not seem like a sprout eater, but he might change his mind on that. Santorum likely thinks that sprouts are from the devil, and they likely are. Gingrich does not look like he eats many vegetables. Paul on the other hand, I could see eating sprouts as he swigs a large glass of…
Special Concerns of the Elderly
The occurrence of bacterial infection is a function of several major variables: (1) the virulence of the bacterial pathogen, that is, its ability to cause severe disease; (2) how the pathogen is transmitted to the “host”—for example, whether it is airborne, foodborne, blood borne, etc.; and (3) host susceptibility—i.e. how…
A total of 14 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O26 have been reported from 5 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Iowa (5), Missouri (3), Kansas (2), Michigan (2), Arkansas (1), and Wisconsin (1). Among persons for whom information is available, illness onset dates range…
New Jersey Department of Health reported that it currently has two residents that are ill in connection to a major outbreak caused by the consumption of raw milk from a Pennsylvania farm, Family Cow Dairy.
Currently 78 people in four states have become ill with campylobacteriosis, a gastrointestinal illness, from the consumption of the raw…
Each of the above died because they ate a listeria-tainted cantaloupe in the United States of America in 2011. And, these are only my clients, not all of the 36 who died.
To the growers, shippers, brokers, auditors and retailers who supplied those cantaloupes in the summer of 2001, shame on you. You will have…
Taco Bell – “Mexican-style fast-food restaurant chain” – Salmonella Outbreak
A 22-year-old Oklahoma woman who says she contracted salmonella after eating at Taco Bell has sued the fast-food company. Leah Smith claims she became sick while attending a University of Oklahoma football game last fall, two days after eating at a Taco Bell in Norman.