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State confirms Salmonella infection in outbreak linked to infant formula

By News Desk on February 24, 2022

West Virginia officials have confirmed a patient with a Salmonella infection as a result of consuming a recalled powdered infant formula.

The state’s Department of Health and Human Resources announced confirmation of the infection today…
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Employee discovery prompts cookie dough recall for undeclared peanuts

By News Desk on July 28, 2019

JuJu Bakes LLC, doing business as “The Cookie Dough Cafe” of Bloomington, IL, is recalling 15 cases of 1.6-ounce “Chocolate Chip Chilled Gourmet Edible Cookie Dough Bars” because they may contain peanuts, which are not…
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Montana again smacks down efforts to legalize sales of unpasteurized milk

By Dan Flynn on February 26, 2019

Lingering death is the usual means for killing legislative bills, but there’s also the swift smackdown method. The Montana Legislature used that second method, also known as tabling, to cut down House Bills 516 and…
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WV gets help on the ground with Hepatitis A outbreak from CDC experts

By News Desk on August 24, 2018

Responding to a request from Gov. Jim Justice, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has moved a 6-person team into West Virginia to help knock down an outbreak of Hepatitis A.

Gov. Justice…
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Hepatitis A cases nearing 100 in WV; 3 out of 4 hospitalized

By News Desk on May 23, 2018

West Virginia has had 98 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A so far this year, with some of them caused by the same strain of the liver virus that has sickened people across the country.

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CDC reports 119 people from 8 states have Hepatitis A linked to smoothies

By News Desk on September 16, 2016

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated this outbreak on Friday afternoon to a total of 119 cases of Hepatitis A from eight states. Forty-seven of these individuals have been hospitalized, but…
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Beach Beat: Cheers to West Virginia’s Bureau of Public Health

By Coral Beach on April 17, 2016

There’s good news out of West Virginia in the wake of a state delegate’s illegal distribution of raw milk in the halls of the Mountain State’s Capitol. As I mentioned in this space in late…
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Capitol crud or unpasteurized pathogens, a gut-wrenching tale

By Coral Beach on March 13, 2016

beach-beat What’s more ironic than a raw milk fan sharing unpasteurized milk with fellow legislators in celebration of a new herd-share law and having the toasts coincidentally followed by an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness? One of…
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Animal ownership agreements offer a route to raw milk in WV

By Dan Flynn on March 8, 2016

406x250Raw-Milk1A law permitting shared animal ownership agreements as the legal vessel for consuming raw milk has been singed into law in West Virginia by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Last year, the Democratic governor vetoed a…
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West Virginia Governor Vetoes Raw Milk Herdshare Bill

By Cookson Beecher on April 3, 2015

Bucking the headwinds of an 81-19 vote in the West Virginia House of Delegates (18-16 in the Senate) for legislation that would have allowed dairy farmers to provide raw milk through herdshare arrangements, Gov. Earl…
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