The headlines about Shigella have taken a sharp turn. For most of my career the bug showed up in the news the way I knew it best — a daycare outbreak, a sick restaurant worker, a batch of contaminated produce. Lately the headlines read more like something out of an STI clinic: “sexually transmitted superbug,” “drug-resistant Shigella spreading among […]
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The FDA, and likely other states and the CDC are continuing to investigate both a Listeria outbreak that has sickened 2 and a Salmonella Africana outbreak that has now sickened 141.
11 more, up to 135 in NCBI minimum = 0 SNPs, maximum = 6 SNPs, average = 1 SNPs Target creation date range : 2024-04-15 to 2024-05-24 Again, this is a relatively rare Salmonella, there are only 5 clusters in NCBI. And, the FDA traces back.
Salmonella Africana is a relatively rare strain, there are only 5 clusters in NCBI A very tight sub-cluster in a larger cluster Entire Cluster 267 Isolates (all clinical) Distance between isolates : minimum = 0 SNPs, maximum = 53 SNPs, average = 20 SNPs WGS date range : 2018-03-22 t A very tight sub-cluster in […]
Well, I have been off my blog for a few days after a nasty tumble gardening, a high tech surgery and a few days in the hospital, and now back on my butt – where most bloggers are.
We still have a long way to go to make our food supply safer. This is what I spent my Saturday on. Gibson Farms Walnut E. coli Outbreak: The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with state and local partners, are investigating illnesses in a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to organic walnuts from Gibson Farms, Inc. of […]
CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigated a multistate outbreak of Salmonella (Sundsvall and Oranienburg) infections. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback data showed that cantaloupes were contaminated with Salmonella made people sick. A total of 407 people infected with one of the outbreak strains of Salmonella were reported from 44 states. […]
Constituent Update May 15, 2024 Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted on its website its determination that tara flour in human food does not meet the Generally Recognized As Safe (or GRAS) standard and is an unapproved food additive. The FDA’s assessment of the ingredient is detailed in a memo added to the agency’s public inventory. Increased […]
The CDC and FDA have reported that as of April 30, 2024, 12 people infected with E. coli have been reported from Washington and California. Two patients have developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a serious condition that can cause kidney failure. The FDA determined that Gibson Farms, Inc of Hollister, California was the supplier of […]
Natural Sourcing International is initiating a voluntary recall of one lot of Great Value Organic Black Chia Seeds 32 oz. due to the potential presence of Salmonella that may be in some of the finished products. Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy […]
Marler Clark is proud to represent families in both of these outbreaks. E. coli Outbreak: As of April 30, 2024, 12 people infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli have been reported from 2 states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from February 1, 2024, to April 4, 2024. Of 11 people with information available, 7 (64%) have […]
According to Saudi Arabian press reports, Saudi authorities on Saturday announced that the source of an outbreak of botulism that has sickened at least 75 people and killing one has been linked to the Hamburgini restaurant chain and tracked to mayonnaise produced by “BON TUM.” The Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing announced on […]
Abstract During July–September 2023, an outbreak of Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 illness among children in city A, Utah, caused 13 confirmed illnesses; seven patients were hospitalized, including two with hemolytic uremic syndrome. Local, state, and federal public health partners investigating the outbreak linked the illnesses to untreated, pressurized, municipal irrigation water (UPMIW) exposure in […]
Salmonella cases reported in Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are collecting different types of data to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections. Epidemiologic and traceback data show that Infinite Herbs brand […]
Public health investigators used the PulseNet system to identify illnesses that may have been part of this outbreak. CDC PulseNet manages a national database of DNA fingerprints of bacteria that cause foodborne illnesses. DNA fingerprinting is performed on bacteria using a method called whole genome sequencing (WGS). WGS showed that bacteria from all sick people’s samples were closely […]