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Most common foods linked to foodborne illnesses. From this chart, it's clear that alongside fruits and vegetables, another frequent, nonmeat-related cause of foodborne illness is dairy products ...
Foodborne illness isn't consistent. Just like other outbreaks, there's an element of randomness to how foodborne illness spreads. “You’ve had three prominent outbreaks in fairly short order ...
The only deaths reported from listeria outbreaks this year have come from the large Boar's Head outbreak, which has claimed 10 lives as of Sep. 23, according to the CDC. Listeriosis or listeria ...
2011 United States listeriosis outbreak – a widespread outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes food poisoning across 28 US states that resulted from contaminated cantaloupes linked to Jensen Farms of Holly, Colorado. As of the final report on 27 August 2012, there were 33 deaths and 147 total confirmed cases since the beginning of the first ...
In 1999, an estimated 5,000 deaths, 325,000 hospitalizations and 76 million illnesses were caused by foodborne illnesses within the US. [1] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began tracking outbreaks starting in the 1970s. [2] By 2012, the figures were roughly 130,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. [3]
Salmonella is one of the most common foodborne illnesses, the the U.S. Centers for Disease Control says, striking 1.35 million people in the United States over the course of each year.
E. coli is a bacteria that can cause serious illness when consumed by certain populations. So far, 39 illnesses, 15 hospitalizations and one death has been associated with the outbreak. Cases have ...
Four children died, and over 700 people became seriously ill with a toxic strain of E. coli in what remains one of the most tragic foodborne outbreaks caused by a restaurant in American history ...