A 4 year old girl is now fighting for her life after contracting E. coli O157:H7 and developing HUS after attending a July 3 picnic hosted by Neff’s Lawn Care in Germantown, Ohio. As reported today by Peggy O’Farrell at the Dayton Daily News, the little girl is currently in critical condition at an undisclosed
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Prior E. coli Outbreaks in Wisconsin
The CDC announced this week that 12 people in 5 states are part of an outbreak of E. coli O26 linked to sprouts. One of those 12 unfortunate folks hails from Wisconsin. Using the outbreak database sponsored by Marler Clark, one can view a history of E. coli outbreaks in Wisconsin:
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Kansas E. coli Outbreaks Past
There are two Kansas residents among the twelve persons sickened in the outbreak of E. coli O26 announced by the CDC this week, and linked to consuming sprouts at Jimmy John’s. E. coli O26 is a “shiga-toxin” producing strain of the E. coli bacteria, the most well known of which is E. coli O157:H7. Like…
California Public Health Letter Explains Link Between Raw Milk & E. coli Outbreak
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a letter on January 17, 2012 to Mark McAfee, CEO of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno, California, explaining the link between his company’s raw milk products and a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 infections in California children. The letter further detailed problems found at the facility, including…
Study Released on 2009 E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak in Cookie Dough
The Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases yesterday published an article reporting on the 2009 outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 caused by commercial cookie dough. In all, the outbreak sickened 77 people in 30 states between March 16 and July 8, 2009. 35 of the ill were hospitalized and 10 developed hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS).
Among those ill was…
Missouri E. coli Outbreaks: Schnuck’s and outbreaks past
Missouri is no stranger to E. coli O157:H7. Strong public health surveillance and investigation has helped to identify multiple E. coli outbreaks in the last decade and a half, not least of which the Schnuck’s E. coli outbreak, yesterday linked to romaine lettuce from a California farm, which has sickened at least 60…
Is there a place for “know your farmer” at the Freedom Riders rally?
Raw milk from an unknown source sounds neither refreshing nor nutritious, particularly while 8 Washington and California residents (5 of them children who developed HUS) recover from illnesses suffered in the Cozy Vale and Organic pastures E. coli outbreaks.
Neverthless, that appears to be what the Freedom Riders are going to transport for…
Livestock exhibit fingered as source of North Carolina fair E. coli O157:H7 outbreak . . . again
A study conducted by North Carolina state health officials into the 27 confirmed E. coli illnesses amongst state fair attendees has revealed what most people probably suspected. The source of the outbreak was, for the second time in a decade, a livestock exhibit at the state fair.
The confirmed E. coli infections in 27
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More ill with E. coli in Boone County; links to St. Louis E. coli outbreak being explored
A fourth person has tested positive for E. coli in Boone County, Missouri, and tests on a fifth is pending. The Boone County/Columbia, Missouri Health Department says:
This a higher-than-average number of cases for our county. Our staff is working with state officials to determine the cause of the illnesses and whether or not
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Missouri E. coli: 33 confirmed, 25 suspect, and some unanswered questions
We lawyers rely on information from all sources in sifting through the epidemiological evidence to make conclusions about an outbreak’s source. For information on developing food safety crises, E. coli lawyer Bill Marler’s www.marlerblog.com is rivaled only by Phyllis Entis, a microbiologist who moonlights, and daylights too I think, as an authority on pretty much…