The Texas Department of State Health Services is warning people not to eat Rocky Ford cantaloupes from Colorado because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause severe illness.
The cantaloupes were grown in the Rocky Ford region of Colorado and may carry a Rocky Ford label. People who have cantaloupes
Today was the first day that residents of Lubbock, Texas were able to receive Hepatitis A vaccinations from the Lubbock Health Department as a result of possible exposure to the virus from an infected employee at Cheddar’s Casual Café located at on 4009 S. Loop 289.
The vaccinations became available two days after City officials
Laboratory results of samples obtained by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s state lab have confirmed a direct link between human cases in the Listeria outbreak and cantaloupe labeled as “Rocky Fords” from Jensen Farms in Holly.
Cantaloupe samples from the refrigerator of a Listeria patient’s home, as well as samples obtained from
AP reports that the first Wyoming case in the Listeria outbreak caused by contaminated cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in Colorado is from Laramie County. Wyoming Department of Health spokeswoman Kim Deti says the man was hospitalized as of Thursday, but she did not have information about his condition Friday.
Patti Waller, the Marler Clark firm’s epidemiologist
The Obama Administration’s announcement that ground beef contaminated with any of six additional disease-causing strains of E. coli bacteria is adulterated and must be removed from the market may be the biggest change in meat and poultry safety in the last fifteen years. It is only the second time that the U.S. Department of Agriculture
In the wake of a City of Lubbock announcement that patrons of Cheddar’s Casual Café may have been exposed to hepatitis A, food safety experts at Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, are calling on restaurants such as Cheddar’s to require employees be vaccinated against the virus.
On September 13, the city announced
Perhaps the answer to that question is yes. Hepatitis A is one of five human hepatitis viruses (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) that primarily infect the liver and cause illness. An estimated 80,000 cases occur each year in the U.S., although much higher estimates have been proposed based on mathematical modeling of the past incidence
After the news came out on September 14, 2011, that anyone who ate at Cheddar’s Casual Café, located on 4009 S. Loop 289 in Lubbock, Texas anytime from August 31 through September 8 may have been exposed to Hepatitis A through a restaurant employee, the City of Lubbock Texas has announced that it will host
Jon Ebelt of the Clark Fork Chronicle reported today that the Montana Department of the Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) is currently investigating two cases of listeriosis identified in Gallatin and Yellowstone counties. According to Montana health authorities, one case, in Yellowstone County, has been definitively linked to the outbreak of listeriosis linked to
The City of Lubbock issued a press release yesterday warning anyone who ate at Cheddar’s Casual Café, located on 4009 S. Loop 289 in Lubbock, Texas anytime from August 31 through September 8 may have been exposed to Hepatitis A through a restaurant employee.
According to the press release:
An employee of the restaurant, who
