Paul Schwarz Sr. died last night from complications related to the severe Listeria illness that he contracted from eating cantaloupe. Paul is the 31st person to die in the outbreak. He never left the hospital or nursing facility after falling ill.
Paul was profiled by Alan Bavley of the Kansas City Star on October 31
The law firm of Marler Clark filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of a New Mexico resident, Florence Wilcox, who was one of five victims in the state to die after eating listeria-contaminated cantaloupe. The listeria outbreak was traced to Rocky Ford cantaloupe produced by Jensen Farms, of Holly, Colorado.
In today’s Albuquerque
At 123 sickened with 25 deaths the Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Outbreak has moved into second place in the United States’ most deadly foodborne illness outbreaks. The numbers of ill and dead are expected to increase in this recent Listeria Outbreak that has impacted 26 states. Here is a list of not the largest, but
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has confirmed that two elderly women who died of listerosis this month were infected with the same strain of Listeria found in the recalled cantaloupes produced by Jensen Farms in Colorado.
The cantaloupe Listeria outbreak, which is now the 2nd deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in US history, has
Today, on behalf of many of our clients in the cantaloupe Listeria outbreak, we sent the following letter to the chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (Fred Upton and Cliff Stearns) in support of hearings that need to be held on the outbreak:
Dear Chairman Upton and Chairman Stearns:
We are the
Today, the CDC updated its count of the number of people infected by Listeria in the cantaloupe outbreak. A total of 100 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 20 states. All illnesses started on or after July 31, 2011. The number of infected persons
The latest (September 21) case count in the Listeria cantaloupe outbreak is 55 confirmed illnesses from 14 states, and 8 deaths (2 in Colorado, 1 in Maryland, 4 in New Mexico, and 1 in Oklahoma). But, as Bill Marler has been reporting for some time now, and now according to William Neuman at the