WATE TV reports that Deputies and Health Department workers swarmed a Knox County dairy farm Thursday after health officials say several children were sickened with E. coli linked to consuming raw milk.
The owner of McBee Dairy Farm on Strong Road in Mascot says he warns all her customers about the risk. Tennesseans can legally
Fox 31 Denver reports that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the CDC and the FDA are all investigating an E. coli outbreak in the Denver metropolitan area.
In the second week of October three Jimmy John’s restaurants in the Denver Metro area reportedly served up sandwiches that sickened eight people with E.
Today the CDC increased its total to 362 individuals infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg reported from 21 states and Puerto Rico. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows:
Alaska (1), Arkansas (1), Arizona (14), California (268), Colorado (7), Connecticut (1), Delaware (1), Florida (4), Idaho (3), Kentucky
According to a report in the Pittsburgh Business Times, at least 5 people who ate or worked at The Porch restaurant in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA fell ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections on or before October 1 of this year, with 4 of the 5 requiring hospitalization. The Porch reportedly closed
Allegheny County Health Department officials said five confirmed cases of E. coli have been discovered in customers and employees of a restaurant in Oakland.
According to a news release issued Wednesday afternoon, all five people diagnosed with the infection ate or worked at The Porch at Schenley on Schenley Drive.
The strain found in each
Following the Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc. (“Reser’s”) recall where select Reser’s products were recalled due to the potential of being contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, Taylor Farms Tennessee, Inc. (“TFTN”) and Taylor Farms Maryland, Inc. (“TFMD”) are voluntarily recalling a limited number of products that contain Reser’s recalled ingredients. The products subject to the recall
Three Minnesota residents have become ill with confirmed E. coli O157:H7 infections after contact with animals at Dehn’s Pumpkins in Dayton, MN, the Minnesota Department of Health reported today.
The three cases were all children, ranging in age from 15 months to 7 years and are residents of the Twin Cities metro area. One child
The Public Health Agency of Canada, along with its health and food safety partners, is investigating 27 confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 illness; 12 in British Columbia, 10 in Alberta, 2 in Saskatchewan, 2 in Manitoba and 1 in Quebec.
These individuals became ill between mid-July and late-September. There has been one death.
Certain
I wrote this one year ago today:
Here we go again.
Last Friday the Division of Public Health of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services in collaboration with Local Health Departments is investigating an outbreak of E. coli infection in 101 people who attended the Cleveland County Fair. Preliminary findings suggest animal exposure
Over at www.fair-safety.com, I am having trouble keeping track of the outbreaks at petting zoos and fairs. Over the years hundreds – if not thousands – have been sickened. And, there certainly have been deaths.
Millions of Americans get in touch with their rural roots each year by taking children to agricultural fairs and