Two Vermont children have been hospitalized in Boston with hemolytic uremic syndrome secondary to E. coli infection.
According to family and friends a five-year-old Barre Town girl and a three-year-old girl from Randolph both remain on dialysis after being diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome – a potentially life-threatening disease that destroys red blood cells and
A first grade student from Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey died Thursday after suffering from an E. coli infection.
Health officials are investigating the source of the child’s illness, but have yet to find the source. Jackson Avenue School sent a letter home to parents, alerting them of the child’s illness and death, and notifying
Federal prosecutors have decided against charging companies involved in the September 2006 E. coli outbreak traced to contaminated spinach.
Following the outbreak, which led to the deaths of three people and sickened about 200 others, FBI agents raided two produce processing plants and several farms for evidence of environmental and food-safety violations. The investigation did
Two children in Yankton County have been diagnosed with E. coli infections. Although a source has not yet been reported, KXMC reports that health officials are working to determine common exposures between the two children who have been diagnosed.
In addition, health officials in Ontario, Canada, have determined that Yaman restaurant, the source of an
Chris Waldrop, director of the Consumer Federation of America’s Food Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. sees a disturbing return:
"It looked like (improvements in food safety) were working, but something has happened. Something’s going on in the food supply chain. We need to figure out what that is. We can’t let our guard down. We
The first lawsuit stemming from an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak traced to ground beef produced by United Food Group, Inc. was filed yesterday in Riverside County Superior Court, in California.
The lawsuit was filed against UFG by Seattle-based Marler Clark and San Diego-based Gordon and Holmes on behalf of Lawrence Fournier and Cynthia Centura of
A lawsuit has been filed against PM Beef Holdings, LLC and Lund Food Holdings, Inc., the producer and retailer who sold E. coli-contaminated ground beef traced to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Minnesota and Wisconsin residents in April, 2007.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Minneapolis, Minnesota, woman who became
The latest technology allowed scientists at the Colorado Department of Health and Environment to link a pair of illnesses in Denver to the same E. coli pathogen sickening several people in California.
The Colorado scientists used an international computer database called PulseNet, created by officials who track illnesses.
"We then saw 11 cases with the
I received the following comments on my posts on the Captain’s Galley E. coli outbreak:
Chris – June 8, 2007 06:35 AM
My daughter and her boyfriends family all ate there on the 27th. The 2 women in the group both ate the slaw, and both got sick. My daughter’s boyfriends mother has been diagnosed
The Arizona Department of Health Services has identified another case of E. coli 0157 in Yavapai County, raising the county total to two.
The Health Department previously identified three other cases in Maricopa County and one from Navajo County.
Four out of the six patients ate hamburger prior to the illness, although officials have not