Food Poisoning Outbreaks and Litigation: Surveillance and Analysis
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…
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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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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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…
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.
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…
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.
If reports to date…
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…
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…
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…
