The Harford County Health Department is awaiting the results of a culture taken from a 5-year-old boy who may have contracted the strain of E. coli that has been linked to contamination of flat-leaf spinach.
According to Matthew Plum of TheExaminer.com in Baltimore the case was first reported to the health department last week; about
Once a readily accessible media darling celebrated for its eco-friendly business practices and humble beginnings, Earthbound Farm shied away from public scrutiny almost entirely Wednesday after investigators found E. coli bacteria in spinach that had been processed at the company’s San Juan Bautista plant.
During a hastily called news conference, Earthbound Farm spokeswoman Samantha Cabaluna
The state laboratory in Frankfort has confirmed a seventh case of E. coli bacteria infection thought to be linked to the nationwide outbreak from tainted fresh spinach.
A male teen-aged Kenton County resident received outpatient treatment for the illness, a particular strain of E. coli O157:H7, said Gwenda Bond, spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department for
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced Wednesday that a test on a Denver resident showed that that person’s E. coli was not related to eating bagged spinach, and that the two Denver residents must have been infected in some other way.
Meanwhile, a Gunnison resident’s test did come back as spinach-related E.
When food turns deadly, old-fashioned detective work, modern technology and an appropriate sense of urgency are the best weapons to fight back. All have been employed in an outbreak of E. coli bacteria, which has sickened 146 people in 23 states and caused the death of one since August 2nd.
Detection and warning are what
Health officials in New Mexico positively identified a deadly strain of E. coli in a bag of spinach yesterday, providing a crucial clue that investigators say can be used to trace the source of an outbreak that has sickened 146 people.
Until now, the evidence implicating spinach has been circumstantial.
The E. coli outbreak, which
Earlier today, the New Mexico Department of Health announced a link to E. coli O157 in an opened, leftover bag of spinach from a case patient, says a media release from Earthbound Farm.
The product was conventional spinach, packed in Earthbound Farm’s facility. The strain matched the outbreak strain. This news confirmed their decision to
The investigation into an outbreak of E. coli that killed one person and sickened more than 140 others both broadened and shrank on Wednesday, as more victims were reported and scientists zeroed in on the contaminated spinach that caused the illness.
In Washington, federal officials said that they had narrowed the focus of their
Two possible cases of E. coli in Nebraska may have been passed from person to person, and not come directly from eating tainted spinach.
That brings the total confirmed Nebraska cases to seven, with four more possible cases.
The two secondary cases are people who live with someone who became ill after eating spinach according
Federal health officials await test results from California farms and packing plants that could allow them to pinpoint the source of an E. coli outbreak that’s sickened spinach eaters across the country.
Though state and federal officials have traced the outbreak to a California company’s fresh spinach, they still don’t know how bacteria contaminated the