Yesterday, an Idaho woman was added to the list of people who became ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections after eating ground beef produced by a Clackamas, Oregon meat producer and consumers were warned to check their freezers for potentially contaminated ground beef products. Illnesses associated with the outbreak have been reported in Idaho, Oregon
Washington, Oregon residents ill with E. coli after eating ground beef
The Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today that Interstate Meat Dist., Inc., of Clackamas, Oregon, was recalling 41,305 pounds of ground beef products for potential E. coli O157:H7 contamination. The recall was announced after at least eight people in Oregon and Washington became ill with E. coli infections after eating the ground beef products.
Huntsville E. coli outbreak ends in death
WAFF reported this morning that one of the victims of an E. coli outbreak traced back to Little Rosie’s Mexican restaurant in Huntsville, Alabama, has died. The victim, whose name was not released, became ill with an E. coli infection in July, and developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a complication of E. coli infection.
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$5.5 million to go toward E. coli research
Yesterday, the USDA announced that it has awarded $5.5 million to researchers who are working to determine the risk factors and prevention measures for E. coli O157:H7 contamination in fresh produce.
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service are providing the funding to ARS researcher Rob Mandrell and his collaborators
E. coli cases up: Reporter looks at 10-year history of E. coli in ground beef
A lot has happened since the largest ground beef recall in U.S. history, including a significant decline in E. coli contamination and illnesses. Since 1996, E. coli cases have trended downward, but in 2004 and 2006, E. coli cases are back up.
In April, the United States Department of Agriculture began testing beef trimmings –
Colorado E. coli outbreak investigation focuses on daycare, water sources
Health officials in Colorado are investigating an E. coli outbreak among children in Eagle County. Several cases have been confirmed in children under 5. The county is focusing on swimming pools and child-care centers in its investigation.
In the summer of 1998, 26 children became ill from E. coli O157:H7 contracted while playing in the
E. coli and the county fair
A 2003 study on the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in livestock at 29 county and 3 large state agricultural fairs in the United States found that E. coli O157:H7 could be isolated from 13.8 percent of beef cattle, 5.9 percent of dairy cattle, 3.6 percent of pigs, 5.2 percent of sheep, and 2.8 percent
Anniversary of an outbreak
Tomorrow marks one year since E. coli-contaminated spinach was harvested from a field in California’s Salinas Valley. One month from today will mark a year from the date US health officials – the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control – confirmed that that spinach was the source of a nationwide E. coli
E. coli cases in Georgia
Health officials in Glynn County, Georgia have confirmed that they are investigating three E. coli cases. So far this year, 15 E. coli cases have been reported in Georgia, including the three cases under investigation. All three of the Glynn County cases involve adults – one who remains hospitalized, and who who were hospitalized, but
Kaua’i E. coli outbreak traced to lettuce
Today, Hawaiian health officials announced that an E. coli outbreak in March has been traced to lettuce grown on Kaua’i.
All eight people were most likely infected by eating contaminated lettuce from a Kaua’i farm, where heavy rains and flooding had carried E. coli bacteria from a cattle pasture onto the lettuce patch.
Officials declined