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
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
California produce growers and processors hope to salvage what’s left of the spinach season and stop millions of dollars in losses by drafting new food-safety measures.
The Associated Press reports that federal officials have required the industry to adopt the measures before they will lift a week-old consumer warning on fresh spinach.
It’s likely to be at least another week before federal and state investigators conclude their search of Salinas Valley farms, looking for the source of the nationwide E. coli outbreak in spinach.
The Monterey County Herald reports that regulators told the industry that the investigation — along with guidelines the industry is now working on
Even as government health experts urge Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables, federal rules for protecting consumers from such hazards as the current E. coli outbreak from contaminated spinach are weaker than for meat and poultry.
And as food-borne illnesses attributed to produce appear to be rising, budget squeezes have federal regulators retreating rather