{"id":256,"date":"2014-07-29T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/209.151.87.121\/~fomes\/iom\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-03-16T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T19:59:29","slug":"venison-deer-jerky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outbreakmuseum.com\/mobile\/e-coli-o157\/venison-deer-jerky\/","title":{"rendered":"Venison Jerky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table id=\"tablepress-7\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-7\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\"><b>Outbreak:<\/b> Venison Jerky<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Product:<\/b> Venison Jerky<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Investigation Start Date:<\/b> 11\/20\/1995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Location:<\/b> Benton County, Oregon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Etiology:<\/b> <i>E. coli<\/i> (STEC) O157:H7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Earliest known case onset date:<\/b> 11\/13\/1995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Latest case onset date:<\/b> 11\/20\/1995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Confirmed \/ Presumptive Case Counts:<\/b> 6 \/ 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Positive Samples (Food \/ Environmental):<\/b> 2 \/ 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-7 from cache -->\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-252\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-99-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-252 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Jerky 1995-003\" data-width=\"400\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_252\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_252\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-1818 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2015-03-06 02:07:07\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outbreakmuseum.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Venison-deer-outbreak-1995-601-smaller-1024x692-e1425608105743-400x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Closeup inside shot of jerky dryer\" class=\"slider-252 slide-1818 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Close-up of the food dehydrator used to make contaminated venison jerky.\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-1843 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2015-03-06 02:07:43\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outbreakmuseum.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jerky-drier-1024x696-e1425607825438-400x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Venison jerky dryer\" class=\"slider-252 slide-1843 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Food dehydrators used to make venison jerky.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-253 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2014-07-29 11:46:25\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outbreakmuseum.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image002-e1425546847389-400x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"400\" alt=\"image002\" class=\"slider-252 slide-253 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">An epidemiologist swabs the band saw used to processed the deer in question; the band saw tested positive.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-973 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2014-09-22 18:27:12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outbreakmuseum.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1995-003feature2-e1425546228496-400x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Venison deer jerky\" class=\"slider-252 slide-973 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Dehydrated venison (jerky); this tested positive for E. coli O157.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-345 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2014-07-31 13:09:35\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outbreakmuseum.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1995-003-1024-e1425546764294-400x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"400\" alt=\"1995-003-1024\" class=\"slider-252 slide-345 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Dr. Keene retrieving the field dressing from the deer that yielded the contaminated venison jerky; field dressing tested positive.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-65\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-65\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Outbreak Summary:<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">At a time when ground beef was thought to be the source of all foodborne <i>E. coli<\/i> O157 infections, this was the first documentation of venison-associated <i>E. coli<\/i> O157:H7 outbreak. Epidemiologists showed that deer can be colonized by <i>E. coli<\/i> O157:H7 and ultimately be a source of human infections. Game should be handled with the same caution indicated for commercially slaughtered meat, and jerky dehydration does not reliably kill bacteria in meat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-65 from cache -->\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-71\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-71\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Details:<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">The following is the abstract from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9103348\" target=\"_blank\">published article found here.<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #7a5027;\"><strong>OBJECTIVE:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nTo investigate a 1995 outbreak of <i>Escherichia coli<\/i> O157:H7 infections and to assess the safety of meat dehydration methods.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #7a5027;\"><strong>DESIGN:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nSurvey subsequent to routine surveillance report, environmental investigations, and laboratory experimentation.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #7a5027;\"><strong>SETTING:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOregon community.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #7a5027;\"><strong>PARTICIPANTS:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nMembers of an extended household and their social contacts with confirmed or presumptive <i>E coli<\/i> O157:H7 infections.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #7a5027;\"><strong>RESULTS:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nA total of 6 confirmed and 5 presumptive cases were identified. Homemade venison jerky was implicated as the source of transmission. <i>E coli<\/i> O157:H7 with the same distinctive, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern seen in the case isolates was recovered from leftover jerky, uncooked meat from the same deer, a saw used to dismember the carcass, and fragments of the deer hide.<br \/>\nIn a subsequent survey, <i>E coli<\/i> O157:H7 was recovered from 3 (9%) of 32 deer fecal pellets collected in nearby forest land. In the laboratory, inoculated venison was dried at several time and temperature combinations, ranging up to 10 hours at 62.8 degrees C. Viable organisms were recovered under all conditions tested.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #7a5027;\"><strong>CONCLUSIONS:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nDeer can be colonized by <i>E coli<\/i> O157:H7 and can be a source of human infections. Conditions necessary to ensure the safety of dried meat deserve further review. 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