This is simply unacceptable. This botulism outbreak, frankly any outbreak that sickens babies, should never have happened. We can do more to protect the most vulnerable. The stork in “operation stork speed” clearly flew into a brick wall and crash landed. This child’s parents bought ByHeart Infant Formula at a Walmart. ByHeart utilized powdered organic […]
I am still in Wales, but press reports from the USA seem to creep across the “pond.” Reading the Seattle Times online this morning it seems that Dee Creek finally got “nicked” as they say here for selling the “magical” milk. As it said, “two owners of a small Cowlitz County farm pleaded guilty Wednesday […]
Now, according to the CDC, since April, 383 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint have been identified in 30 states and the District of Columbia: Arkansas (2 persons), Arizona (26), California (8), Colorado (2), Connecticut (2), Florida (1), Georgia (8), Idaho (3), Illinois (34), Indiana (8), Kansas (9), Kentucky (1), Maryland […]
I finished my lecture at the Royal Institute of Public Health in London where I received a John Snow tie, coffee mug and label pin (also inducted into the John Snow Society). On the drive to Cardiff, Wales we stopped to see some rather interesting rocks:
According to Ohio Health officials, Eleven cases of illness due to E. coli bacteria have been reported in central Ohio over the past two weeks. Five of the reports are from Columbus, two from elsewhere in Franklin County, three from the east in Fairfield County, and one from the north in Delaware County. So far […]
The CDC reports that since April, 277 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint have been identified in 28 states and the District of Columbia: Arkansas (2 persons), Arizona (19), California (6), Colorado (1), Connecticut (2), Florida (1), Georgia (7), Idaho (3), Illinois (34), Indiana (7), Kansas (8), Kentucky (1), Maryland (1), […]
According to the CDC, for every one person who is a stool-culture positive victim of salmonella in the United States, there a multiple of 38.5 who are also sick, but remain uncounted. (See, AC Voetsch, “FoodNet estimate of the burden of illness caused by nontyphoidal Salmonella infections in the United States,”Clinical Infectious Diseases 2004;38 (Suppl […]
I am in London today (Sunday 5:00 AM – a bit jet-lagged) and am off to see if I can find the Broad Street Pump – famous because John Snow (a.k.a., father of Epidemiology) figured out that is was the water from the pump that was the vector in the 1854 Cholera outbreak. Inside the […]
Efoodalert blogger Phyllis Entis, blogged today that Kentucky has been added to the torrent of tainted-tomatoes. It is now 229 people infected with genetically matching strains of Salmonella Saintpaul have been identified in 24 states since mid-April. Other states include: Arizona (19 people), California (2), Colorado (1), Connecticut (1), Florida (1), Georgia (1), Idaho (3), […]
In a press briefing today, David Acheson, M.D., the FDA’s associate commissioner for foods (a.k.a., “Food Czar”), said that evidence available thus far suggests that a single geographic region (e.g., Mexico or Florida) is the source of salmonella SaintPaul that has contaminated tomatoes and resulted in 228 cases of salmonellosis in 23 states. Dr. Acheson […]
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According to the CDC, six states, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New York, Tennessee and Vermont with 61 ill persons were added to the prior list of Arizona (12 persons), California (2), Colorado (1), Connecticut (1), Idaho (2), Illinois (27), Indiana (7), Kansas (5), Michigan (2), New Mexico (39), Oklahoma (3), Oregon (3), Texas (56), Utah (1), […]
Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections in Children Associated with Raw Milk and Raw Colostrum From Cows — California, 2006 CDC this morning published the following findings in MMWR: Five of six patients reported they had consumed brand A raw dairy products in the week before their illness onset; the sixth patient denied drinking brand A raw […]
Misti Crane of the Columbus Dispatch reported this morning that six cases of E. coli O157:H7 infections in the past week have health officials concerned and looking closely to see whether the illnesses are linked. Three cases in Fairfield County and three in Franklin County, including two in Columbus, were reported after the death on […]
I also had a nice chat with Susan Salisbury of the Palm Beach Post Staff Writer how the “Tomato scare unlikely to alter laws.” The salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 167 people in 17 states isn’t bad enough to generate national food-safety laws, said a leading lawyer specializing in food-borne illness cases. "It […]