Washington state and local health officials are investigating an outbreak of intestinal illnesses that struck a number of people who attended a cheerleading competition in Everett last weekend.More than 3,000 people attended, and more than 1,000 competed, in the cheerleading and dance/drill event hosted by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association in Everett on Saturday, February 4, the Washington State Department...
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture on Monday said the Your Family Cow raw milk dairy may resume production and bottling of unpasteurized milk, as the number of confirmed illnesses connected to milk sold by the farm earlier this month rose to 43.According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, there have been 36 cases of Campylobacter infection in that state, four...
The illness that struck about 50 people following a high school basketball game in Pierre, SD was the result of Clostridium perfringens food poisoning, possibly linked to tacos, according to the state Department of Health.The health department used an electronic questionnaire to high school and middle school staff and students, as well as others who attended the Jan. 31 game,...
On Monday, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Food Safety News, the Michigan Department of Community Health released documents again naming Taco Bell as the mystery Mexican-style fast food chain linked to an outbreak of Salmonella infection from October and November 2011. Michigan has become the second state to release documents implicating Taco Bell as the restaurant likely involved...
New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning suffered from an E. coli infection before his team's conference playoff game with the San Francisco 49ers, Frost Illustrated, reports. Frost is a news site in Indianapolis, this year's Super Bowl city.Manning left practice during the week before the NFC championship game because, the team said, he had a bout with the flu. As...
Pennsylvania health officials say 38 people who drank unpasteurized milk from the Your Family Cow dairy became ill, and they expect additional cases to be confirmed.Laboratory tests confirmed Campylobacter infections in 31 Pennsylvania residents; four Maryland residents; two West Virginia residents and one New Jersey resident. Nearly half of those sickened are under 18, Pennsylvania health officials said. The latest onset...
One more victim of the nationwide outbreak of Listeria infection linked to Colorado cantaloupes died this week, bringing the death toll up to 32. When the epidemic was declared over in December of last year, it was already the deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in the U.S. in nearly 100 years, having killed 30 of the 146 people sickened, and caused a...
On Wednesday, Food Safety News editor Dan Flynn broke news of the identity of "Restaurant Chain A" as Taco Bell in the 10-state outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis that sickened at least 68 individuals in October and November 2011. The disclosure came from officials at the Oklahoma State Department of Health's Acute Disease Service, who responded to a records request from...
The Mexican-style fast food chain referred to only as "Restaurant Chain A" in a report on a 10-state outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is Taco Bell, Food Safety News has learned.While Taco Bell was suspected ever since the CDC's outbreak report was issued on January 19, confirmation that the chain was central...
As Food Safety News continues to investigate the identity of 'Restaurant Chain A,' the "Mexican-style fast food chain" linked to a 10-state outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis infection in October and November 2011, the issue has received mounting attention from a variety of media outlets and blogs, including the Huffington Post and Marion Nestle at Food Politics. JoNel Aleccia of msnbc.com spoke...
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