Sprouts suspected in multistate Salmonella outbreak

[DainBramaged]

Federal officials announced today they are collaborating on an investigation into a multistate Salmonella serotype I 4,<5>,12:i:- outbreak, possibly linked to sprouts served on sandwiches at Jimmy Johns restaurants, that have sickened 89 people in 15 states and the District of Columbia.

The first cases surfaced in Illinois, where state officials announced last week that they were investigating illnesses involving the same outbreak strain in people from 11 of the state's counties, plus one patient from Wisconsin. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that 50 of the patients are from Illinois.

Other cases are from Missouri (14), Indiana (9), Wisconsin (3), and Pennsylvania (2). Locations with one case so far include Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Illness onsets, available for 81 of the patients, range from Nov 1 through Dec 14. The median age is 28, and 69% of the cases are in females. About 23% of the patients were hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/dec2310sprouts.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Whew. I thought it was referring to Sprouts store

http://sprouts.com/home.php

Basically, a Trader Joes wannabe.

[Denninmi]

2. Yet, the teahadist/freeper crowd is going nuts ...

over the food safety bill just passed.

After all, if I'm a food manufacturer/processor, I think I should have the God-given right to be as filthy as I want to be. The rabble can pick the rat droppings out of their lettuce for themselves or go without.

[DainBramaged]

4. Exactly

This is why we HAVE food safety, so those who desire the least protection get the most protection and don't die prematurely from food-borne illness.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Jimmy Johns is having an Anus Horibilus

Karma is a beetch.

[DainBramaged]

5. I had NEVER heard of them before tonight

and the closest one to me is nearly 100 miles away.