Outbreaks from Foodborne Pathogens in Raw Milk and Raw Milk Cheeses, United States 1998-present These tables were compiled by the Real Raw Milk Facts working group through searches of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) online foodborne disease outbreak database (1998-2009). Because the CDC database has about a two-year lag period, preliminary data […]
Below is the Rivera family. An E. coli O157:H7 infection cost them over $6,000,000 in medical costs and kept Linda, still in a wheelchair, in the hosptial for over two years. Food poisoning is not a new concern. The problem is, it’s not an old one either. Consumers, Government and Industry have been working to […]
As of April 20, 2012, the Foundation Farm raw milk-associated Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak has sickened 19 persons. Of these 11 have culture-confirmed E. coli O157 infections; 15 of the 19 cases are in children <19 years of age. Four children have been hospitalized with kidney failure. Subtyping results of the E. coli O157 isolates […]
The CDC announced today a total of 160 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Bareilly have been reported from 20 states and the District of Columbia. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Arkansas (1), Connecticut (6), District of Columbia (2), Florida (1), Georgia (6), Illinois […]
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A total of 141 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Bareilly have been reported from 20 states and the District of Columbia. 21 ill persons have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Arkansas (1), Connecticut (6), District […]
Given this evidence, what will the proponents of raw milk say? Lynne Terry of the Portland Oregonian reports that lab tests confirmed today what Oregon health officials suspected: Raw milk from Foundation Farm near Wilsonville was contaminated with a deadly strain of E. coli. The tests found E. coli O157:H7 in the milk, manure and […]
I have developed a friendship with many of Stewart Parnell’s victims of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) Salmonella outbreak of 2009. Many of them attended a press conference in 2011, where they asked why after two years Parnell was still free? Re-reading internal emails from PCA from 2008 and 2009, I have to ask […]
Also, farm linked to raw milk E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Missouri. According the Lynne Terry of the Oregonian, Oregon health authorities have confirmed a fifth case of E. coli infection in an outbreak traced to raw milk. All five patients are younger than 15 and three, including a toddler, are hospitalized with acute kidney […]
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With raw milk outbreak in both Oregon and Missouri, it is hard to keep up on the outbreak and recalls. This line list was compiled through searches for government and dairy industry press releases, reports, and newsletters announcing dairy-related outbreaks and recalls. The data precedes official statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has confirmed 13 cases of E. coli bacterial infection in central and western Missouri. Six of the cases involved people who drank raw milk purchased from the same farm, said Gena Terlizzi, an official with the Missouri health department. Still, the state doesn’t have enough evidence to […]
The Oregon Public Health Division, Department of Agriculture and several local Oregon health departments are investigating an outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli) infections that have left three Portland-area children hospitalized, two with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a complication of E. coli infection that can lead to kidney failure. All of these children drank […]
The Portland Oregonian reported that raw milk from cows at Foundation Farm in Wilsonville has sickened at least 11 people (two children with acute kidney failure or HUS) with E. coli O157:H7 in Washington, Clackamas and Multnomah counties, Oregon health officials said Friday. The farm has sold raw milk to 48 families through a herd-sharing […]