As of Monday, November 2, 2026, Washington has three confirmed human H5N1 infections, all in Yakima County residents exposed to infected cattle at dairies, and one of them, a person with underlying health conditions who had been hospitalized with severe illness, died on Sunday, November 1. Thirty-three Yakima County dairy herds and one Benton County
As of Monday, November 2, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is telling parents not to buy or serve any Once Upon a Farm Tractor Wheels Organic Toddler Soft-Baked Bars, in any flavor, lot or expiration date, after “several reports” of toddlers between 18 months and 2½ years old choking with complete airway obstruction.
Vitality Works Inc. of Albuquerque, New Mexico recalled one lot of 365 Whole Foods Market Standardized + Full Spectrum Blend Ashwagandha Capsules on October 30, 2026 because it may be contaminated with Salmonella. The 120-count bottles carry lot number 2025-26227 and were sold from November 24, 2025 through October 20, 2026 at Whole Foods
D&M Smoked Fish Inc., doing business as Haifa Smoked Fish of Jamaica, Queens, New York, recalled all lots of its Cold Smoked Sprats on October 27, 2026, about 560 pounds, because they may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that makes botulinum toxin. The sprats were sold to retail stores, restaurants, wholesalers and
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit on October 30, 2026 in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado for Sherry DeCrow of Lafayette, Colorado, who bought a dozen raw oysters at a Whole Foods Market in Superior, Colorado on June 5, 2026 and tested positive for Salmonella. The suit names Whole Foods
The FDA updated its CORE Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks table on October 28, 2026. Here is what’s new:
New outbreak: A new outbreak of Salmonella Javiana (ref #1424) has been added to the table. Fifty-nine people are sick. The product linked to illnesses has not yet been identified, and FDA has not yet initiated
The West Virginia Department of Health sent a health advisory to doctors, hospitals and labs today warning of an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, according to WDTV. Forty-one people have been sickened since early September, and five have been hospitalized.
Those sickened range in age from 3 to 54. Health officials say exposures are still
Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) is now investigating nine confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), up from seven on Tuesday. The one common thread: every patient visited the State Fair of Texas before falling ill. Investigators are focused on the fair’s petting zoo.
The patients range in age, several are
I have been retained by the family of a woman who was hospitalized with a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infection after visiting Brookshire Farms, the pumpkin patch and corn maze at 4747 Los Osos Valley Road in San Luis Obispo. The family has asked me to find out what made her sick. She is
As of October 26, 2026, the Virginia Department of Health has sequenced Salmonella Telelkebir, the outbreak serotype, in oysters from each of the four Little Wicomico Oyster Company leases it sampled on October 13: five of sixteen isolates, drawn from eight composite samples that had every one already tested positive for Salmonella. CDC still
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cautioning pet owners not to feed two lots of Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Chicken Recipe for Cats after FDA samples tested positive for Salmonella.
The FDA collected and tested the samples after a consumer complaint about two cats that developed gastrointestinal illness after eating the