Posted on 01/07/2009 6:13:36 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
ATLANTA (AP) — Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak that has reportedly sickened nearly 400 people in 42 states, but they don't know how the bacteria are spreading.
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Mexico?...China?
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Mexico AND China?
There has to be some commonality. Or a trail.
Salmonella Outbreak Hits 42 States:
(web MD)
388 Sick, No Deaths So Far; Source Unknown
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Jan. 7, 2009 — An ongoing salmonella outbreak has sickened 388 people in 42 states, the CDC said today.
At least 67 people have been hospitalized; no deaths have been reported. Victims of the outbreak range in age from less than 1 year to 103.
“We are collaborating with public health officials in 42 states, the FDA, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate an ongoing multistate outbreak of human infection with Salmonella typhimurium,” CDC spokesperson Lola Russell tells WebMD.
The CDC has not released the names of the states involved. However, the Ohio Department of Health says in a news release that there have been 50 cases among residents of that state, making Ohio the state with the second most cases.
An FDA spokesperson says the agency is working closely with the CDC to identify the cause of the outbreak. If the CDC determines that the illnesses were caused by an FDA-regulated product, the spokesperson says, the FDA will perform a “traceback” investigation to determine the specific product linked to the outbreak and how that product became contaminated.
The salmonella strain is a common one. Salmonellatyphimurium is the same type of salmonella that in 2007 sickened 401 people in 41 states, Russell says. A CDC investigation traced the 2007 outbreak to undercooked not-ready-to-eat Banquet brand frozen pot pies.
The recent salmonella outbreak traced to peppers (and possibly tomatoes) was the saintpaul strain, a different type of salmonella.
Previous outbreaks of Salmonella typhimurium have been traced to poultry, raw milk and cheese, and pet turtles.
“We are reminding people that it is often difficult to trace the source or sources of salmonella outbreaks,” Russell says. “We don’t have a potential source at this point.”
Localized salmonella outbreaks are not uncommon. Every year, the CDC receives reports of some 40,000 salmonella cases, with about 400 deaths. Because less serious cases are not reported, the actual case number is estimated to be 30-fold higher.
Kids under age 5 are five times more likely to get salmonellosis than others.
Here’s the CDC’s advice on how to prevent salmonella infection:
Cook poultry, ground beef, and eggs thoroughly. Do not eat or drink foods containing raw eggs or raw (unpasteurized) milk.
If you are served undercooked meat, poultry, or eggs in a restaurant, don’t hesitate to send it back to the kitchen for further cooking.
Wash hands, kitchen work surfaces, and utensils with soap and water immediately after they have been in contact with raw meat or poultry.
Be particularly careful with foods prepared for infants, the elderly, and the immunocompromised.
Wash hands with soap after handling reptiles, birds, or baby chicks, and after contact with pet feces.
Avoid direct or even indirect contact between reptiles (turtles, iguanas, other lizards, snakes) and infants or immunocompromised people.
Don’t work with raw poultry or meat, and an infant (e.g., feed, change diaper) at the same time.
Mother’s milk is the safest food for young infants. Breastfeeding prevents salmonellosis and many other health problems.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not named all the states.
That sort of funny. Do they think if they released the states we would be able to figure it out?
“Don’t work with raw poultry or meat, and an infant (e.g., feed, change diaper) at the same time.”
Well that connects the dots to Mexico!
And, it is in 57 states.
Mexico, China, and Muslim terrorists. That should cover it. And Democrats.
I don’t get this. If you cook everything at home, why worry? OK, I don’t cook peanut butter, but it is made in the USA!
So that's why they cover themselves with the statement that you should not use a microwave of less the 1100 watts power -- not just the usual "microwaves vary, adjust cooking time."
Just went to Healthmap.org and they are not showing a salmonella outbreak. So much for the all seeing eye.
Working with a really decrepit/aged/faulty memory, here, but wasn’t salmonella the ‘weapon of choice’ in an eco-nazi-domestic-terrorism attack (failed) in California some years back??
..anyway, it just appealed to him and the name probably helped...'Treasures of the Sea'....
...If you look quickly at the bag, your eyes see Spokane, Washington...(& you think, USA)
..but if you look more closely, but not even small print, it says...
product of China!!
My husband hates to waste anything, but when I saw 'product of China' the whole bag got pitched.
A friend of mine bought a bag of talapia at Aldi's....'product of Viet Nam'....hers got pitched too.
I go around the supermarket carefully reading the small print before I buy anything !!
Of course this started after I discovered ...'Product of US, Canada & Mexico'... on the beef packages at my local supermarket (the one I frequent almost daily)...(they just started stamping this fairly recently)
So I started an amateur search on the Internet and almost gagged when I became more aware of the junk our nation has engaged in.... concerning our foods....
I'm just surprised MORE people aren't sick!
Since 2002!!!!!!!...our farmers and ranchers have tried to get our products labeled so Americans can see where their produce & beef, etc are originating!
Guess what, folks have lobbied to suppress this information-(Mexico being one!)- and year after year after year have succeeded in stalling the bill that was suppose to pass.
It would appear it finally passed about October of this year....the Country of Origin .
And many times your well known company--household names.... who has outsourced ..'just about EVERYTHING'.. to China, Mexico, etc....are very clever at hiding this fact.
Even with the 'country of origin' supposedly in effect, you still have to dig to find if the product is US MADE (not just distributed) or China made or Mexico made!
Dear goodness, what has happened to our nation.
That's an obscure reference that will probably go over most folks heads.
Wasn't that outbreak linked to a leaky roof?
I was going to post this... but, you beat me to it..
My wife works in a very small office of a General Practitioner here in Louisville. They have already seen 5 cases of this, ages ranging from 23 to 70, of which.... 3 have been admitted to the hospital. This disease is being called “salmonella”, but... it doesn’t include a high fever, which salmonella typically does. Her boss doctor, is VERY perplexed.
It’s still VERY early.. but, this incident smells fishy to me. Worth keeping an eye on.
Again?
In my opinion, there isn't (and there never was) a problem unless one is buying 50lb bags of "frozen fish" at Home Depot.
Check the chinese produce section at Wal Mart.
The problem is that quite often, it may say USA, but when you look closer, it was packaged in the USA, but the product actually came from someplace else like China or Mexico.
Now you’re telling me what I’m reading on my own packages?
No, I said, “quite often’. I see labels like it all the time. It’s very frustrating. I especially hate that most of our produce seems to come from Mexico, Chili, Peru etc.
I can see folks out in the sticks not having as much of a choice, but who knows?
It’s not on the CDC website.
cooking & eating while changing diapers at the same time is my diet secret.
Never fails to make me lose my lunch and my appetite. The pounds just melt away like magic.
If there's no baby available, cleaning the cat box works almost as well.
He had enough legal residents who were all registered voters. The plan was to sprinkle bacteria on the local salad bar the night before the big election and most of the people who had not voted absentee, would then be too sick to go to vote and his followers would put their own people in the govt.
I can add an anecdotal account of some chinese chicken jerkey dog treats that gave one of my pups bleeding $hits.
And I have to ask....
Does anyone else here think the CDC and M. Giberdink(?) are many times clueless?
I’m referring to the flu virus vaccine orders to NOT get when the vaccine wasn’t available....(but no problem per them) and subsequent urging of all ages/sexes to use when excess stocks were produced (cause it was suddenly a big problem.)
They can’t trace bad lettuce, a bad tomato, can’t do more than tell folks to wash their hands. Takes weeks to confirm/dismiss powder in envelopes being sugar, soap, or anthrax.
I greatly respect the bio science around disease etc. but I have severe doubts about Ms. Giberdinks organization and motives.
At the least, she’s been gutless for years and I further believe her staff is excessively mellowed on nitrous for not directing competent responses.
You try to live up to your name, don’t you.
..restaurants do not have to regulate where they buy their food or give the customers any indication where the talapia, beef, chicken, etc is from.
Even though the 'Product of Origin' is in effect now (on a limited basis)...the food service industry is exempt.
Try figuring out where your 'Made in USA' label is in your restaurant of choice, 1rb!
The other day I needed a Z-pack (antibiotics) for an ear infection.
I went to my local Walgreens (although I ususally go elsewhere)....
I started to take the first pill...and saw on the package...Made in Mumbai, India...
I took the meds back (unopened) and asked for antibiotics made in the US...
We have to be constantly vigilant!
My General Mills cereal this AM was MADE in CANADA!
I find the most innocuous ordinary products nowadays made in ....Mexico and Canada
Methinks Bush pushed through his North American Union way back when & we didn't even know it.
Try a little ...just a little...sleuthing on your internet and you will be unpleasantly surprised where your everyday food items come from now.
Funny image, though . . . a hotdog with 12 or 13 little "Made in" flags. How would you propose attaching one to the celery salt?
In any case, I find it rather odd that you find crap food at Sam's, but act surprised that it may be found at a crap restaurant.
First mention of it on FOX 1/8/09 8:23.
The problem is that they import the raw ingredients, and then "make" the finished product in the US, and call it "Made in the USA".
Same as last time. Illegals pooping in the lettuce fields.
This was not the cheap fat filled hamburger this was ‘black Angus’ almost four dollars a pound 93/7 grade hamburger.
Guess where most "US made" drugs are really made? The Caribbean, Ireland and Israel.
Oh, I get that . . . I’m simply asking at what point does it no longer become practical to label something?
The only common denominator I can see is that neither a 1 year old nor a 103 year old have teeth so it was probably contracted from something they drank.....
Salmonella? Outbreak in 42 states? That’s a lot of illegal alien poop! Mountains, in fact.
100 acres of lettuce or green onions in California contaminated with Salmonella and shipped to China Marts throughout the country would do it.
Sadly, I’m just getting informed......and realizing how hard ‘some’ work to obfuscate information .
NBC’S Chris Hansen did a frightening expose——he answered a US ad for cheap wholesale drugs.
He followed through-—to China-—where enterpreneurs actually mfg pills that look real and are bottled and labeled like the real thing——but are nothing but fakes.
The Chinese enterpreneurs were making millions of dollars doing this.
That's the problem with the "illegal pooping in the fields" canard: the scale of the outbreak indicates a systemic problem somewhere along the chain. It would be more accurate to claim that Mexicans are pooping into our distribution equipment. (Just that the image of a Mexican pooping into a piece of equipment doesn't garner the same emotional reaction).
I was quite irate and talked to 3 different managers...
..the story they gave me was a bit different than yours, but they were all fumbling with it.
I said I would not buy anything labeled as such.
One of the managers said their 'Greenwise' stamped products were USA made.
But the other day when I questioned a manager if the Greenwise ground round was indeed made in the USA, his answer was....'as far as I know'....
Folks we're being bulldozed....have been bulldozed....and will continue to be bulldozed until we do something about it!
THIS is Clinton's AND Bush's legacy to us!
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