Oklahoma Health Department investigators finished interviews and data evaluation without identifying the source of a Salmonella outbreak that infected 17 people in three counties, NewsOK, the Oklahoman newspaper’s online news service, reported over the weekend.
Sickened were 14 school-age children in the Mustang School District in Canadian County, a young
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An outbreak of Salmonella is now believed to have sickened 17 people in Oklahoma.
The two new suspected cases have not been confirmed through lab tests, the Oklahoman newspaper reported yesterday.
Of the cases reported in three Oklahoma counties, 14 are schoolchildren from Mustang, a fast-growing Oklahoma City suburb in
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The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) continues to search for the source of a Salmonella outbreak among Mustang Public School students and other Oklahoma residents who became ill with salmonellosis in September.
Laurence Burnsed, an epidemiologist with OSDH, told Food Safety News that as of Oct. 1, 15
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Lawyers making closing arguments waited a week for an ill U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell to return to the bench, but the chicken waste trial did come to an end last week.
With no jury in the civil trial, it’s up to Judge Frizzell to decide who wins–the State
In documents filed ahead of this week’s closing arguments in a trial against 11 poultry companies, the State of Oklahoma says it could live with an application limit of 65 pounds of poultry litter per acre.
Poultry companies, however, want to come out of the federal trial in Tulsa with
A “scientifically robust model of the Illinois River watershed” will be built in the next year and half by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the purpose of establishing “maximum daily loads” of pollutants like phosphorus from poultry litter.
EPA told state officials in Oklahoma and Arkansas about its
During the 12 weeks from mid-September to mid-December in the federal courthouse in Tulsa, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson put on a lot of evidence that it is poultry litter that is polluting the Illinois River.
Oklahoma is finished presenting its case, and now attorneys for 11 chicken companies being
The trial pitting Oklahoma against the poultry industry over disposal of chicken waste in the Illinois River Basin probably won’t be over until some time next year.
Charlie Price, spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, says the state has three or four more weeks to go before it will
The private water wells around Locust Grove are not safe to drink, but an exhaustive study by the State of Oklahoma failed to find any of the deadly E. coli O111.
That was the strain that killed Chad Ingle of Pryor and sickened 340 other Oklahomans who dined at the
There’s a federal judge in Tulsa who probably feels like he is driving behind a slow-moving chicken truck on a narrow two-lane road. He’d like to go faster, but can’t. He’d like to pass and leave this all behind him, but that isn’t possible either.
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