January 2008

Mark Pratt at the Boston bureau of the Associated Press is reporting that state officials have found the same strain of listeria inside the Whittier Farms Dairy processing plant that was responsible for three deaths and a miscarriage. 

The AP says the investigation now has to figure out exactly how the milk came into contact

Linda Bock at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette News yesterday (Jan. 9) wrote what might end up being the definitive wrap up piece on the Whittier Farms listeriosis outbreak.
With three elderly dead and one pregnant woman suffering a miscarriage, Bock reports that health officials cannot say the outbreak is over. That’s because listeria has

Stephen Smith at the Boston Globe tonight is reporting there has been a third death from the contaminated milk produced at Whittier Farms in Central Massachusetts.

Dead is an 87-year old Norfolk County man.  State health officials are declining to give out the man’s name.  He died in the hospital, where he had been sent