At least 118 people in 8 western states are now known to be victims of a hepatitis A outbreak traced to a frozen berry mix sold at Costco. This count comes as the lastest in an almost daily rise in the number of illnesses, which yesterday was at 106. According to the Centers for Disease… Continue Reading
The name of the Lombard, IL restaurant closed Friday by the DuPage County Health Department did not remain a secret for even the weekend. The DuPage County Health Department has confirmed Los Burritos Mexicanos was shut down because of its possible association with an investigation into an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. The restaurant at 1015… Continue Reading
The Hepatitis A outbreak continues in eight western states with the case count as of June 14 rising to 106. The illnesses are blamed on an organic blend of frozen berries and pomegranate seeds from multiple countries. Produced by Oregon-based Townsend Farms and sold at Costco and Harris Teeter stores, the frozen berry blend has… Continue Reading
Since May 20, three women have been admitted to Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass., suffering from severe E. coli infections in an apparent outbreak now under investigation by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. A spokeswoman for the state health department confirmed the investigation to Food Safety News after our reporters received a forwarded email written by… Continue Reading
Update (6/13): The CDC has lowered the number sickened from 99 down to 97. Original story below: At least 99 people in 8 states are now known to have been sickened in the ongoing hepatitis A outbreak tied to a frozen organic berry mix. That number is up from the 87 illnesses reported Monday by the… Continue Reading
Opinion
Sometimes, I must say, the “mechanism” that publicly responds to outbreaks of foodborne illness just seems to lack much passion. It does not seem to know how to express a sense of urgency. It has a seemingly endless ability to make every event sound the same. The “mechanism” I speak of is the entire chain… Continue Reading
A Target pharmacy employee who works at two locations in Alameda County, California handled medications after being infected with hepatitis A as part of the multistate outbreak linked to frozen mixed berries, according to a local Patch report. The individual that is part of the outbreak works at pharmacies in San Leandro and Whipple Road… Continue Reading
Twelve of the 49 people sickened in the ongoing multistate Hepatitis A outbreak are Colorado residents, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The state announced on Tuesday that it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate an outbreak believed… Continue Reading
The number of hepatitis A infections linked to a frozen berry mix sold nationwide has now climbed to 49, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday. That announcement came on the heels of the first formal recall of the implicated product, which was issued by the maker of the berry mix, Oregon-based Townsend Farms,… Continue Reading
At least 37 people are now known to have been sickened in a hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen berries. The case count stood at 30 at the end of last week, with illnesses in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and California. Then over the weekend, Hawaii’s department of health reported two victims in that state,… Continue Reading
Another Western state was touched by the outbreak of a rare strain of hepatitis A, adding two more individuals to the list of those sickened nationwide. Hawaii is the sixth state to be added to the growing outbreak. State health officials in Hawaii say two adults, one from the island of Oahu and the other… Continue Reading