The Finney County Health Department, along with the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), continues investigating an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness that appears to be associated with the Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches restaurant in Garden City, Kan.
The Finney County Health Department and KDHE are contacting diners
An Introduction to Norovirus
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that noroviruses cause nearly 21 million cases of acute gastroenteritis annually, making noroviruses the leading cause of gastroenteritis in adults in the United States. [5, 9, 13, 31] According to a relatively recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine:
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Based on the results of positive laboratory testing, the Southern Nevada Health District has confirmed the illnesses it is currently investigating among a group of attendees of the National Youth Football Championship event as norovirus. As part of this type of investigation the health district often obtains appropriate samples in an effort to confirm the
Customers of the Casper, Wyoming Golden Corral filed a class action lawsuit against the restaurant today, alleging they were part of a norovirus food poisoning outbreak that was traced to food served at the restaurant in December. The lawsuit was filed in Federal District Court in Wyoming (Case Number 3CV-024-J) by Jason Ochs of The
The Wyoming Department of Health reported today on the cause of the Golden Corral – Associated Outbreak of Norovirus Gastroenteritis Natrona County, November – December 2012 (Download Report). These are the findings and conclusion of the report:
According to Holland press – Six days after it was closed due to a norovirus outbreak, a Holland eatery reopens today. Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant had voluntarily stopped operations and pulled its booth out of the Ottawa County Fair last Saturday when the first reports of at least 200 cases of diners becoming ill had surfaced.
There is a rash of outbreaks in the upper midwest right now (E. coli in Michigan, Norovirus in Illinois, and Norovirus in Indiana). We learned yesterday about an E. coli outbreak linked to The Ambassador Restaurant in Michigan, which sickened 7 in late December. (Question: if the public was just informed about this outbreak
Three close-to-simultaneous norovirus outbreaks in the upper midwest must have sanitarians scratching their heads. Norovirus is as exclusively fecal-oral as any bug out there, and a lot of Jimmy Johns, Subway, and Bob Chinns customers are probably pretty upset about it. And in a cruel twist of irony, the Jimmy Johns outbreak sickened many first-responders at
FDA warns consumers not to eat certain ASSI Brand frozen oysters
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat certain ASSI Brand frozen oysters from Korea following an outbreak of illness in Washington state caused by norovirus.
• The frozen oyster meat (shucked; not in shell), is packed in 3-lb