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Cause of Texas Salmonella Outbreak Unsolved

By PritzkerLaw

Health investigators in Texas are examining a cluster of 25 Salmonella illnesses in and around Lockhart, Texas, but they have not yet found a cause.

Doug McBride, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that a few of those infected with Salmonellosis have been hospitalized. In Caldwell County, where the outbreak has occurred, there is usually only seven to nine cases of Salmonella reported in a year.

Symptoms of Salmonella include diarrhea, headache, stomach cramps, nausea and sometimes vomiting. The symptoms go away after several days, but an infected person may be able to pass the disease to another person for up to two months.

The bacteria is spread by eating contaminated food, drinking contaminated water, or having hand-to-mouth contact with the feces of an infected person or animal.

If you or someone you know has possibly been infected with Salmonella bacteria, see a physician immediately. Most healthy adults can withstand the disease without treatment, but it can be fatal to young children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems.

To contact a Salmonella lawyer, call Pritzker Olsen Attorneys at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete one of our online forms for a free case consultation.

Our firm is one of the few in the country practicing extensively in the area of foodborne illness and we have collected tens of millions of dollars for victims of food poisoning. We are representing Salmonella victims nationwide, including the families of three women from Minnesota and Ohio who died in the peanut butter Salmonella outbreak late last year and early this year caused by Peanut Corporation of America. 

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on July 04, 2009 (boomark / email).