Imagine that the phone call comes or an email pops into your inbox – “Sir, we have been contacted by the health authorities and they say our product (polony) has been linked to illnesses and deaths. What do we do?”
So, what do you do? Lawrence MacDougall received that call. Now, what has he done
As of March 8, 2018, 967 laboratory-confirmed listeriosis cases have been reported to NICD from all provinces since January 1, 2017. To date, 749 cases were reported in 2017, and 218 cases in 2018.
Females account for 56% (525/933) cases where gender is reported. Where age was reported (n=930), ages range from birth to 92
Marler Clark has filed several lawsuits and represents three dozen victims.
The CDC reports as of March 6, 2018, 170 people infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 7 states. Illness Count Iowa (149), Illinois (9), Nebraska (5), Minnesota (3), South Dakota (2) Indiana (1), Texas (1).
Illnesses started on
Black First Land First, which laid murder charges against the corporations at the Hillbrow Police Station, said heads had to roll.
Leader of Black First Land First Andile Mngxitama (BLF) believes the listeriosis outbreak that has claimed as many as 180 lives amid about 1,000 confirmed infections can be categorized as “murder”.
He tweeted on
South Africa’s biggest consumer foods maker, Tiger Brands, has recalled products produced by its Enterprise unit after the government traced the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed almost 180 people and sickened nearly 1,000 to its Enterprise manufacturing facility. Tiger Brands said it has suspended operations at both Enterprise manufacturing facilities in Polokwane
I am heading to South Africa Tuesday morning – a 24 hour flight – to speak at a Listeria Conference on Thursday.
South Africa’s biggest consumer foods maker, Tiger Brands, has recalled products produced by its Enterprise unit after the government traced the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed almost 180 people and
As of February 27, 2018, 10 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo were reported from 3 states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from December 20, 2017 to January 28, 2018. Ill people ranged in age from 26 to 56, with a median age of 42. All 10 (100%) were female. No hospitalizations
As of 14 February 2018, 872 laboratory-confirmed listeriosis cases have been reported to NICD from all provinces since 01 January 2017 (Figure 1). Most cases have been reported from Gauteng Province (59%, 517/872) followed by Western Cape (13%, 111/872) and KwaZulu-Natal (7%, 62/872) provinces. Cases have been diagnosed in both public (64%, 559/872) and private
At least 872 sickened – no cause of outbreak yet discovered.
Wendy Knowler of the Johannesburg Sunday Times reports that the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) continues to try and pinpoint what has now become the largest Listeria death toll in the world.
The number of confirmed listeriosis cases is now 872, and 164
I have thought a lot over the last 25 years about what lessons can be drawn from the tragedy that was the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Knowing the children—many who are now nearing 35—who still bear the scars of eating a hamburger, and knowing the parents of those who died,
