Outbreak: Hydro-Harvest alfalfa sprouts | |
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Product: Alfalfa sprouts | Investigation Start Date: 02/01/1999 |
Location: Multi-State: OR, WA, ID. | Etiology: Salmonella Mbandaka |
Earliest known case onset date: 01/09/1999 | Latest case onset date: 06/12/1999 |
Confirmed / Presumptive Case Counts: 43 / 0 | Positive Samples (Food / Environmental / Water) 12 / 0 / 0 |
OUTBREAK SUMMARY:
The increasing popularity of sprouts as health foods was sharply followed by the epidemiologic discovery that sprouts are prone to transmitting foodborne pathogens like Salmonella. This was the largest "sproutbreak" of foodborne salmonellosis in Oregon since the multistate and multinational outbreak of Salmonella Newport infection in 1996, in which … Continue Reading ››