Salmonella

FDA investigates ongoing outbreaks involving contaminated pastries with 18 reported cases of illness across 7 states, and 1 hospitalization.

It is not only about cooking the food to the correct temperature, but also how long the food should sit out, and safe storage after the meal is over. Here is more information to have a healthy holiday.

More food recalls, including eggs, guacamole, Sriracha, and vegetables, were issued due to health risks from contamination, prompting consumer action nationwide.

FDA announced the outbreak already impacted 65 people across 9 states, with 24 hospitalizations.

The FDA, CDC, and state health departments have been monitoring foodborne illnesses this August including Listeria, Salmonella, and Clostridium botulinum.

By implementing targeted monitoring and a phased compliance approach, the USDA aims to enhance food safety and public health while maintaining cost-effectiveness and ensuring safer poultry products.

The study examines how pathogenicity-related gene clusters integrate into Salmonella's genome to affect disease ability.

A Salmonella outbreak associated with Raw Farm in Fresno, California, has sickened at least 165 people, marking the largest US outbreak linked to raw milk in the past decade.

Investigators have shown that a new monoclonal antibody treatment is able to break apart communities of harmful bacteria, which could aid existing antibiotic treatments in more efficiently clearing out infections.

The US Food and Drug Administration has sent the sandwich chain a warning letter over citing involvement in several outbreaks of Salmonella and Escherichia coli over the past 7 years.

From Ebola to measles to Salmonella, these were the top 9 infectious disease outbreaks of 2019.

The FDA investigation of fruit mix linked to a recent outbreak has discovered 33 laboratory confirmed illnesses of Salmonella thus far.

In this novel type of outbreak, contamination was not isolated to a single food or facility, suggesting industry-wide contamination.

Epidemiologic and laboratory evidence indicates that ground beef is the likely source of the outbreak. The current hospitalization rate is 89%.

As of October 8, 2019, a total of 21 individuals have been infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella across 13 states.

Prior to 2017, Salmonella isolates with resistance to azithromycin had occurred in fewer than 0.5% of isolates from ill Americans.

Forty-five cases have been documented in a multidrug-resistant Salmonella outbreak with a suspected link to contact with pig ear dog treats.

Investigators identified a patient in the US infected with Salmonella resistant to colistin, the drug of last resort, raising concerns about the spread of multidrug-resistant microbes.

CDC is warning consumers in several states to dispose of whole, fresh papayas imported from Mexico following the detection of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Uganda.

Health officials indicate this outbreak is not related to the 2018 Cyclospora outbreak linked to Del Monte’s vegetable trays, which sickened 250 individuals.

According to the CDC, the outbreak is not connected to with the Salmonella outbreak resolved in February that was linked with tahini and sickened 8 individuals across 4 states.

According to the CDC, 28% of the Salmonella cases in this outbreak occurred in children under the age of 5 years.

A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Newport has been linked to raw tuna products distributed by Jensen Tuna.

On April 12, 2019 a recall was issued by Caito Foods for pre-cut watermelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, and pre-cut fruit medley products.

A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Schwarzengrund has been attributed to consumption of ground turkey.

We’ve rounded up a list of important US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recalls from this past week.

Eleven cases of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported in a multistate outbreak with a suspected link to contact with hedgehogs.

Investigators in the United Kingdom are closer to understanding how a 5% genetic difference between global Salmonella and a virulent strain of African Salmonella which leads to nearly 400,000 deaths each year in sub-Saharan Africa.

While young people with enteric infections have the lion’s share of symptoms, the elderly suffer higher rates of complications and hospitalizations from these illnesses. Arriving at a correct, timely diagnosis for this cohort of patients is key.

Despite the increase of live poultry-related Salmonella outbreaks, environmental sampling at hatcheries is not routinely conducted leaving the outbreak source unknown.