There has been one case of E. coli contamination in Quesnel, British Columbia, but it is not linked to the Safeway ground beef recall, according to the Cariboo Press.
The infected person had never bought nor eaten any meat from Safeway.Continue Reading E. coli: one case, no link
Options for treating person with E.coli disease
The E. coli strain that is harmful to humans is E. coli O157:H7, a member of the enterohemorrhagic E. coli group – an intestinally related organism which causes hemorrhaging.
Transmission of E. coli comes from contaminated food, such as ground beef and other cattle products that are undercooked and unpasteurized dairy products. Contaminated foods do not look, smell, nor taste any different than safe products.Continue Reading Options for treating person with E.coli disease
Eat To Live: Dangers in leafy greens
UPI Food Writer Julia Watson reports that the Food and Drug Administration is aware of 18 outbreaks related to lettuces since 1995 caused by E. coli, and one relating to fresh-cut spinach. Those 19 cases account for over 400 reported cases of illnesses and 2 deaths.
Robert E. Brackett, director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, sent a worried letter to those California companies that handle leafy greens specifically, since investigations traced eight of the outbreaks to growers in Salinas, California.Continue Reading Eat To Live: Dangers in leafy greens
Health Officials Believe Child E. coli Cases Linked
The only commonality between the six children who contracted E. coli in Fresno County seem to be that they all attended the Big Fresno Fair, reports ABC30.
The Fresno County Department of Health is still investigating and questioning fair operators, but says they may never know definitively what caused the outbreak.Continue Reading Health Officials Believe Child E. coli Cases Linked
Parents issue warning about E. Coli
According to the Vancouver Sun, the parents of three-year-old Hillary Nelson, who has been on dialysis in BC Children’s Hospital for more than a week after eating a meal contaminated by E. coli bacteria, have issued a warning about the danger of cross-contamination from packaged meat.
Brad and Cheryl Nelson are cautioning others that the E. coli bacteria that caused their daughter’s kidneys to shut down completely may have come from a leaking package of bloody meat.Continue Reading Parents issue warning about E. Coli
Fresno County health officials investigate bacteria outbreak
The Big Fresno Fair may be one of several possible sources of an E. coli outbreak according to Fresno County health officials.
All of the six children who contracted the bacteria attended the Fair. They may all have had contact with animals at any of the animal exhibits at the Fair, including the petting zoo and livestock pavilion.Continue Reading Fresno County health officials investigate bacteria outbreak
Alert of tainted beef came a month after report of first Alta E. Coli case
The Canadian Press reports that although the source of where the Safeway meat was contaminated has been identified and eliminated, health officials are saying that it still took more than a month after the first E. coli case was reported before the public was alerted.
Since E. coli can take up to a week before
3-year-old E.coli victim recovering
CBC News reports that three-year-old Hillary Nelson has suffered kidney failure after eating the hamburger meat contaminated with E.coli bacteria sold at a Canada Safeway store. She remains on dialysis but her condition has improved.
She is one of at least 19 people who became sick after eating the contaminated hamburger meat, including four who
Beef sold in B.C. stores recalled over E. coli
Canadian Safeway stores in Alberta and British Columbia have issued a recall of all regular, lean and extra-lean ground beef after at least 19 people got sick from E. coli poisoning, CTV reports.
The ill have included a baby and three children, one of whom is still in hospital in stable condition. One elderly person
E.coli inquiry to look at issue of school meals
Madeleine Brindley of the Western Mail reports that the National Assembly’s inquiry into the South Wales Valleys E.coli outbreak, led by Professor Hugh Pennington, will not only be looking at school meal production, but food production regulation as well.
More than 170 people – mainly children – became infected with E.coli O157 poisoning in south