A bag of spinach bought in Utah in August has tested positive for E. coli according to the Associated Press. It’s the second bag in the country to test positive for the strain of E. coli linked to the national outbreak.
Meantime, the number of sick people linked to bad spinach keeps going up. In
After a story ran Friday in The Morning Herald and The Daily Mail, reporters and television satellite trucks waited outside the home of Warren and Corinne Swartz of Hagerstown.
The couple received many interview requests after word got out about the death of Corinne’s mother, June E. Dunning, from E. coli, possibly due to
Public health officials tell the San Francisco Chronicle that it’s impossible to know how long E. coli 0157:H7 has been around. People likely were sickened by it for years, or even decades, before doctors identified it.
But the reason outbreaks have become more common in the past 25 years, health officials agree, is because technology
Medical News Today reports that of the 166 cases of E. coli poisoning reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 88 were hospitalized and 27 developed hemolytic-uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure. 118 of all patients were female, 48 were male (12 were children).
One person from Wisconsin has died.
As reported by the Associated Press, 171 cases of illness due to E. coli O157:H7 infection have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including 27 cases of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, 92 hospitalizations and one death. 25 states have reported cases of E. coli O157:H7 infection.
The federal disease detectives now tracking bad spinach heard the first alarms on an otherwise quiet Friday, 14 days ago.
Since then, the food-borne illnesses have spread to at least 23 states. Hot on the heels have been scientists and public health officials, who are deploying the microscope, the Internet and an adrenaline-laced intellect familiar
166 cases of illness due to
infection have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including 27 cases of
, 88 hospitalizations and one death. 25 states have reported cases of E. coli O157:H7 infection. The additional states as of today are Maryland and Tennessee according
Widespread warnings against eating fresh spinach from the United States because of an E. coli outbreak in at least 19 states have given a whole new meaning to the health dictum "Eat your greens" – not just for consumers trying to stay healthy but for lawyers.
The Montreal Gazette reports that spinach-related outbreak and continuing
Maine health officials told Maine Today they have found a third case of a resident becoming sick from the same strain of E. coli bacteria involved in a nationwide outbreak.
The case occurred in late August, the same time that the other two cases in the state occurred, a spokesman for the Maine Department of
The San Jose Mercury News reports that investigations into the latest in a 10-yr string of E. coli outbreaks is forcing food producers to re-examine their entire process, tracing a path from the seed in the ground to the salad on the table.
This time the tainted produce is spinach, with one death and 146