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Texas Salmonella Outbreak Cause Unknown

The Texas Department of State Health Services is investigating an outbreak of Salmonella that has infected at least 25 people in Caldwell County.

At this point, the cause is not known. Doug McBride, a spokesman for the agency, told the Austin American-Statesman that a few of the victims has been hospitalized. The cluster of illnesses compares to the normal rate of seven to nine cases of Salmonellosis in a year in Caldwell County. Most of the cases are in and around Lockhart.

National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen Attorneys is representing Salmonella victims nationwide. The firm is involved in practically all major outbreaks of foodborne illness and has collected tens of millions of dollars on behalf of victims of food poisoning. To contact a Salmonella attorney at our firm, call 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or write to us online for a free case consultation from an attorney.

Symptoms of Salmonella poisoning include headache, diarrhea, stomach pain, nausea and sometimes vomiting. These symptoms may go away after a few days, but the sick person may be able to pass the disease to others for up to two months.

Salmonellosis is spread by eating contaminated foods, drinking contaminated water or having hand to mouth contact with the feces of an infected person or animal. Most healthy adults can withstand the disease without medical treatment, but it can cause serious injury, even death, to small children, the elderly and all people with compromised immune systems.

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Salmonella Tied To PCAs Texas Plant

The Colorado Department of Health and Environment has traced six Salmonella illnesses to peanut ingredients made at the Plainview, Texas, plant of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA).
The finding marks the first time that any Salmonella illnesses in the ongoing Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak have been associated with any other plant other than PCA's processing facility in Blakely, Georgia.
"This certainly widens the scope of the investigation,'' Alicia Cronquist, epidemiologist for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, told the Portland Oregonian newspaper.
Cronquist said six of 16 people in Colorado sickened by the outbreak strain of Salmonella ate peanut butter ground at a self-service machine at Vitamin Cottage, a natural foods chain based in Lakewood, Colorado. The peanut ingredients came from PCA's Texas plant. One of the six ill persons had to be hospitalized.
PCA has filed for bankruptcy liquidation and gone out of business. But the bankruptcy filing won't halt a federal criminal investigation of the company, nor will it deter lawsuits, including a Salmonella wrongful death suit filed by national food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen Attorneys in Minneapolis.
The firm represents the families of three women -- two in Minnesota and one in Ohio -- who died with Salmonella infections after eating adulterated peanut butter made at the Georgia plant.
The investigation of the peanut butter Salmonella outbreak centered exclusively on PCA's plant in Georgia until Texas health inspectors found unsafe conditions and preliminary signs of Salmonella at the Plainview facility. Texas authorities ordered a recall of all peanut products ever made at the plant.

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Food Poisoning Lawyer Fred Pritzker has appeared on national television and has been quoted by national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and Lawyers USA. He has been named a "Super Lawyer" by Law and Politics magazine. He is also listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America. To contact Fred Pritzker about a food poisoning lawsuit or food safety advocacy, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit the firm's free consultation form.

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