Surveillance & Analysis on Listeria News & Outbreaks
South Dakota’s lone reported case of listeria during a nationwide outbreak is in Minnehaha County.
State Health Department Epidemiologist Lon Kightlinger tells the Argus Leader that the woman who got sick is in her 60s and is hospitalized. He says officials have not been able to determine whether she ate cantaloupe before becoming ill.
Federal…
CDC Reports that as of October 11, 2011, a total of 116 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 25 states. All illnesses started on or after July 31, 2011. The number of infected persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1)…
State health officials say a Yellowstone County case of the bacterial disease Listeriosis has been linked to a cluster of cases in six other states that is possibly tied to cantaloupes grown in Colorado.
The Department of Public Health and Human Services said Wednesday that further tests are being done to determine if a Gallatin…
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has confirmed that an 87-year-old Baton Rouge area woman who died earlier this month was infected with the same strain of listeria found in the recalled cantaloupes produced by Jensen Farms in Colorado.
Last week, the DHH lab linked the death of an 81-year-old Shreveport area woman. Epidemiologists…
William T. Beach consumed cantaloupe in early August. Mr. Beach subsequently fell ill and on approximately August 28th, was taken to the hospital by ambulance after his wife, Monette, found him collapsed on the living room floor, unable to speak or breathe regularly. Mr. Beach was discharged from the hospital two days later, but his…
Ongoing collaborative investigations by local, state, and federal public health and regulatory agencies indicate that the source of the outbreak is whole cantaloupe grown at Jensen Farms’ production fields in Granada, Colorado. Among the 84 ill persons with available information on what they ate, 78 (93%) reported consuming cantaloupes in the month before illness onset.
Dear Chairman Upton and Chairman Stearns:
We are the husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and children of some of the 109 people from 24 states whose lives have ended, or been permanently and grievously transformed, because they ate contaminated cantaloupes grown and sold by Jensen Farms. We write to you today to echo Representative…
With 109 sickened and 21 deaths, the Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Outbreak is now tied as the second-most deadly foodborne illness outbreak in the United States. The numbers of ill and dead are expected to increase in this recent listeria outbreak, which has impacted 24 states.
Here is a list of not the largest…
A fourth Missouri case of listeria has been linked to contaminated cantaloupe from a farm in Colorado.
State officials say they were notified Friday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a listeria infection in northwestern Missouri was linked to the tainted fruit.
State health officials say all four patients were hospitalized.
Health officials in western New York say a person has died of listeria infection, the first death in the state linked to tainted cantaloupes from Colorado.
The Ontario County Public Health Department didn’t release any other details, except to describe the patient as an older person with underlying health problems.
Listeria infections can kill young…
