June 2015

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reports tonight that 216 people have developed a Salmonella infection linked to Tarheel Q restaurant in Lexington, North Carolina.

Case distribution includes 15 North Carolina counties and 5 states. Of the North Carolina cases 77% of cases are residents of Davidson County and Davie County.

Laboratory testing

Number of illnesses has drastically risen to almost 200 in less than a week; Another lawsuit has been filed against the Lexington restaurant

Davidson County resident and military retiree David Lutz has filed a lawsuit against Stance, Inc. and Tarheel Q Inc. after suffering from Salmonella poisoning from food purchased and eaten at the Tarheel

Salmonella-Outbreak-300x210In the last two months nearly 600 people have suffered Salmonella infections linked to restaurants in Wisconsin, Idaho and North Carolina. Illnesses have spread to at least a dozen states.

Supermercado Los Corrales Salmonella Outbreak

The Kenosha County Division of Health reports that as of Wednesday, June 3rd, Salmonella with a matching DNA fingerprint has

ucm452910Whole Foods Market is voluntarily recalling packaged raw macadamia nuts due to possible Salmonella contamination. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting

staphylococcus-aureusThe Alabama Department of Public Health Bureau of Clinical Laboratories has found Staphylococcus aureus toxin in several food products served at both locations of the Sunnyside Child Care Center in Montgomery.

Eighty-six children attending the facilities have been treated at local hospitals this week for symptoms that include vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, cramps and lethargy. Clinical