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Hydro-Harvest alfalfa sprouts

Outbreak: Hydro-Harvest alfalfa sprouts
Product: Alfalfa sproutsInvestigation Start Date: 02/01/1999
Location: Multi-State: OR, WA, ID.Etiology: Salmonella Mbandaka
Earliest known case onset date: 01/09/1999Latest case onset date: 06/12/1999
Confirmed / Presumptive Case Counts: 43 / 0Positive 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 ››