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Minnesota Links Recalled Krinos Brand Tahini to Salmonella Illnesses
According to the Minnesota Department of Health, two Minnesota residents – both children under one year old – have become ill with salmonellosis linked to eating Krinos brand tahini sesame paste that...
View ArticleCause of Fayetteville North Carolina Salmonella Outbreak Found? Ill Employees?
I wonder if any of the employees had been to Vegas? Fayetteville North Carolina WNCN Staff reports that investigators from the North Carolina Department of Health were at a hotel in Fayetteville again...
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Could Fayetteville Holiday Inn Salmonella Outbreak Spread Along the Interstate?
Nancy McCleary of the Fayetteville Observer reports that more than 1,000 people may have eaten at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux since May 1, the beginning date of a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened at...
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Salmonella in North Carolina and E. coli in Texas Updates
North Carolina: WNCN reports that a Salmonella outbreak stemming from a Fayetteville hotel has now reached 70 possible cases, 12 of which are out of state. The Cumberland County Department of Public...
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Almost 300 with Salmonella I:4,5,12:i:- Linked to Vegas Firefly
According to today’s REPORT from the Southern Nevada Health District, the epidemic curve as of May 20, 2013 is presented in the figure below and shows a total of 294 people whose illnesses met the case...
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Nuts – Oregon Hazelnuts Recalled Due to Salmonella
Lynne Terry of The Oregonian reports that Canadian authorities have issued several recall notices this month for hazelnuts from Oregon. The nuts, which were shipped in-shell, were potentially...
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Fayetteville Holiday Inn Bordeaux Salmonella Cases Rise to 86
Food Safety News reports that at least 86 people fell ill after eating at one of two restaurants within the Holiday Inn Bordeaux in Fayetteville, N.C., as of Friday, according to Cumberland County...
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New Vegas Firefly Opens after Salmonella Outbreak
With nearly 150 Firefly Salmonella victims as clients, it did not take long for one of the locals to send a picture of the new, hopefully Salmonella free, location. Questions that I plan on asking is...
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Fayetteville, North Carolina Holiday Inn Bordeaux Link to 99 with Salmonella
We have filed two lawsuits on behalf of sickened customers. The Cumberland County Department of Public Health continues to investigate the source of a Salmonella infection outbreak announced May 14 at...
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103 Sickened at Fayetteville Holiday Inn
The Cumberland County health director, Buck Wilson, declared the county’s Salmonella outbreak over Wednesday, saying there have been no new cases since May 15. The Cumberland County Department of...
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Thanks to the CDC – and, a Question
I do not thank enough the good folks at state health departments for counting, and the CDC for compiling, all the outbreak data that I often steal whole cloth for my blog. Thanks. So, when the CDC...
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Iguana Joe’s Sickens Dozens with Salmonella in Texas
Tiffany Craig of KHOU reports that the Harris County Texas Health Department has temporarily closed Humble’s Iguana Joe’s after multiple patrons reported being sickened over Father’s Day weekend. The...
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Foster Farms Chicken Link in 134 Salmonella Illnesses
The CDC reported today that a total of 134 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg were reported from 13 states. 31% of ill persons were hospitalized, and no deaths were...
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1 Funeral, 67 Ill and a Number of Salmonella Hospitalizations
The Alabama Department of Public Health continues to investigate a foodborne outbreak that has affected at least 67 out of 100 or more people who ate a meal on July 6 after a funeral at Eastern Star...
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Is it time to press charges against CEOs of major retailers – restaurant...
The Iowa City Gazette reports that three years after a nationwide Salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated eggs from Iowa, federal prosecutors are still seeking criminal charges. Attorneys in Iowa’s...
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Boston’s Clover, a responsible company, linked to Salmonella outbreak
Deborah Kotz of the Boston Globe reports that 12 people in Cambridge, Boston, and possibly elsewhere in the state, have been sickened by a Salmonella outbreak since late June, prompting the closure of...
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Clover’s Closure – Voluntary or Not – Doesn’t Matter to 12 with Salmonella
According to the Boston Globe’s Deborah Kotz, twelve cases of Salmonella were reported in June and early July among patrons of Clover’s various locations in Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline. That...
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Final Report: Cross-Contamination and Ill Employees Link in All American...
Cumberland County and North Carolina state public health investigators have determined that the All American Grill within the Holiday Inn Bordeaux was the source of a Salmonella outbreak in May that...
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Beware of Street Vendor Guinea Pig with Salmonella in Minneapolis
My kids always bugged me to get one – now I know why I kept saying no. Alejandra Matos of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that at least 81 people fell ill from suspected Salmonella poisoning after...
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125 Salmonella Infantis, Lille, Newport, or Mbandak Illnesses Linked to Mt....
A total of 125 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Lille, Salmonella Newport, or Salmonella Mbandaka have been reported from 26 states. The number of ill...
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