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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
