Missouri is awash in E. coli O157:H7 right now. Dozens of people have been sickened by E. coli in and around St. Louis, an outbreak that is possibly linked to a salad bar product at area Schnucks stores. And this evening, KRCG 13 reports that several Boone County residents have tested positive for E.
Schnucks E. coli outbreak update: dozens ill
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has been leading a team of local, federal, and state public health experts in investigating the cause of the E. coli outbreak that has hit the St. Louis region. To date, the Missouri State Public Health Laboratory is testing or has tested 41 samples from individuals
Schnuck’s E. coli Outbreak: dozens ill, but good epidemiology may have saved lives
The Schnuck’s E. coli outbreak, occuring in recent days in St. Louis, Missouri, has sickened at least 24 people. Press reports, however, indicate that as many as 34 stool samples have been tested for shiga-toxin, so there may well be, and in all likelihood are, more people sick in St. Louis.
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Recent E. coli outbreaks: Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, and North Carolina
Listeria and cantaloupes have dominated food safety headlines lately, after a strangely quiet summer season that fortunately saw little E. coli O157:H7. But a bad bug like E. coli won’t stay down for long. And we are now in the midst of several significant E. coli outbreaks in Missouri, Michigan, and North Carolina, which follow
More foodpoisoning illnesses in Missouri: this time, it’s E. coli
AP reports that Missouri and St. Louis County Health Officials are trying to determine the cause of an outbreak of E. coli in St. Louis County that has sickened 14 people this week. St. Louis County’s health department spokesman John Shelton said Thursday that all of the cases have been reported since Tuesday. Shelton said the
More McNees Meats E. coli O157:NM illnesses in Michigan?
Linda Gittleman of the Morning Sun reported this morning that 3 more people have become ill with the same strain of E. coli that (1) infected one of our clients in a ground beef outbreak this summer, and (2) we see relatively infrequently nationally. The strain of E. coli involved in this summer’s McNees Meats outbreak was
Profiling the European Sprouts E. coli Catastrophe of 2011
The New England Journal of Medicine has published the results of a study into the catastrophic E. coli 0104 outbreak linked to sprouts that occurred predominantly in Germany in the late spring and summer. Residents of other countries, including the US, were sickened in the outbreak, but in Germany alone, the outbreak sickened 3816, killed
7 E. coli illnesses in Wake County, North Carolina
Media reports indicate that the North Carolina Division of Public Health is investigating an E.coli cluster in Wake County, North Carolina. The cluster has sickened at least six children and one adult. Four of the people sickened have required hospitalization, and 2 were treated in intensive care, likely because they had developed hemolytic uremic syndrome
Where’s the beef? Tyson recall yields little returned product
Jeremy Shapiro at the Emporia Gazette says that the retail stores where Tyson’s E. coli O157:H7 contaminated ground beef was sold have not gotten much of it back, after Tyson’s September 27, 2011 recall of over 131,000 pounds. The contaminated beef caused an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in and around Butler County, Ohio in September.
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Few answers in Wisconsin E. coli outbreak: 1 dead, 12 ill
Thirteen people, in total, have been sickened or killed by E. coli O157:H7 in Green County, Wisconsin since mid-July. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Green County Health Department has not been able to link the cluster of illnesses to any particular source. On Thursday, the health department said only that E. coli bacteria have been