Peanut Butter Salmonellosis Outbreak Update

Lee Coleman

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The CDC announced yesterday that as of 12 p.m. February 27th, 370 people had been infected with the Salmonella Tennessee from 42 states. Out of 294 that clinical information was available for 60 had been hospitalized for this illness. The dates for the sickness range from August 1, 2006 to February 16, 2007. Most of the illnesses came after December 1, 2006. The recall for the Peter Pan and Great Value Peanut Butter was made on February 14th. Anyone having the product with the code beginning with 2111 is effected by this recall.

"The states that have reported cases are Alaska (1 case), Alabama (10), Arkansas (3), Arizona (5), California (4), Colorado (11), Connecticut (2), Florida (4), Georgia (18), Iowa (7), Illinois (9), Indiana (15), Kansas (9), Kentucky (10), Massachusetts (6), Maryland (2), Maine (1), Michigan (9), Minnesota (5), Missouri (17), Mississippi (5), Montana (2), Nebraska (2), Nevada (1), New Jersey (6), New Mexico (1), New York (41), North Carolina (22), North Dakota (1), Ohio (9), Oklahoma (11), Oregon (2), Pennsylvania (27), South Carolina (8), South Dakota (6), Tennessee (18), Texas (16), Virginia (23), Vermont (7), Washington (4), Wisconsin (6), and West Virginia (4)."