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underpants

(182,830 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:17 AM Jun 2018

Romaine Lettuce -- CDC: 5 dead, close to 200 sick in worst E. coli outbreak since 2006

Five people have been killed and hundreds have fallen ill due to an E. coli outbreak from romaine lettuce, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.

The deaths occurred in California, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Minnesota and New York, according to the CDC.

At least one Ohio case was recorded as part of the outbreak when a 24-year-old woman in Mahoning County was hospitalized. She has since been released, according to the Ohio Department of Public Health.

Nearly 200 people from about 36 states have been sickened by the outbreak that was first discovered in mid-March, reports The Washington Post. Nearly half of the people sickened by the E. coli have been hospitalized, according to the CDC.

Around 26 people developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a form of kidney failure that can be life-threatening to someone with weakend immune systems such as children and the elderly, according to The Post. The majority of people who fell ill from the outbreak live in California.

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/cdc-dead-close-200-sick-worst-coli-outbreak-since-2006/nXHmez9ObPatsPsAz5hD7I/

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Romaine Lettuce -- CDC: 5 dead, close to 200 sick in worst E. coli outbreak since 2006 (Original Post) underpants Jun 2018 OP

That's horrible.. so sorry. Cha Jun 2018 #1

'Make leafy greens "high risk" and chase them down quickly,' Hortensis Jun 2018 #2

and chocolate has still killed nobody just saying dsc Jun 2018 #3

Cha

(297,323 posts)

1. That's horrible.. so sorry.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:22 AM

Jun 2018

From eating Romaine.. comes from the Yuma area but they don't know which farm.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

2. 'Make leafy greens "high risk" and chase them down quickly,'

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:36 AM

Jun 2018

say nine consumer and food safety groups.

FOOD SAFETY NEWS: There’s no indication yet that anyone is the least bit embarrassed about the failure to yet identify the precise source of an E. coli O157: H7 outbreak involving at least 32 states and four Canadian provinces. But nine consumer and food safety groups have stepped forward to demand that FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb add regulations within the next six months “for comprehensive and rapid traceability of produce, including leafy greens.”

In a May 24 letter to Gottlieb, the groups said all FDA needs to do is to “implement the long-overdue directive laid out by Congress in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requiring the agency to issue a proposed rule establishing recordkeeping requirements for high-risk foods.”

“This will improve the agency’s ability to quickly trace the source of foods linked to an outbreak of foodborne illness, so it can initiate swift recalls,” said the consumer and food safety groups in the letter.
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2018/05/make-leafy-greens-high-risk-and-chase-them-down-quickly-say-consumer-groups/#.WxUjEe4vxdh

This site reports internationally. A child has died and others are ill in France from cheese-borne E. coli. The "world's largest recorded listeriosis outbreak," in South Africa, is reportedly slowing, 208 deaths so far.

dsc

(52,163 posts)

3. and chocolate has still killed nobody just saying

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:06 AM

Jun 2018

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