July 2012

A total of 18 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O145 infection were identified in 9 states.

The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows: Alabama (2), California (1), Florida (1), Georgia (5), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (5), Maryland (1), Tennessee (1), and Virginia (1).

Four ill persons were hospitalized.

WHIO reports that Dayton & Montgomery County Health Department is looking into a possible foodborne outbreak stemming from a carry-in picnic in Germantown, Ohio whose victims suffered from E. coli-like symptoms.  Bill Wharton, a spokesman for the local health department said between 200 and 300 people attended an annual employee appreciation picnic at Neff’s Lawn