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Salmonellosis in peanut butter from Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia has become "one of the nation’s worst known outbreaks of food-borne disease" in recent years. Nine are believed to have died and an estimated 22,500 were sickened.
This is a list of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll, caused by infectious disease, heavy metals, chemical contamination, or from natural toxins, such as those found in poisonous mushrooms. Before modern microbiology, foodbourne illness was not understood, and, from the mid 1800s to early-mid 1900s, was perceived as ptomaine poisoning ...
This is a list of foodborne illness outbreaks. A foodborne illness may be from an infectious disease , heavy metals , chemical contamination , or from natural toxins, such as those found in poisonous mushrooms .
According to the CDC, it causes 2,500 outbreaks in the U.S. alone, accounting for 58% of foodborne illnesses in the nation. "Norovirus is highly infectious, and outbreaks have been linked to foods ...
VNutrition used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at foodborne illness outbreaks across the top food groups since 1998. From frozen waffles to onions: How recent ...
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that every year 48 million Americans, or roughly one in six people, get sick from foodborne illnesses, and about 3,000 cases each year are ...
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 ...
There’s a new salmonella outbreak linked to eggs, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reported in a Sept. 6 media alert. Here’s what you need to know about the outbreak and how you ...