The FDA and the CDC have given the latest salmonella outbreak a pass, apparently. One has to look deep into the newspaper to read anything about the latest 31 cases of salmonella that is affecting at least six states.
I’m not minimizing the potential danger of the H1N1 flu virus. However, it seems that we have had so many salmonella cases from so many different sources in the past few years that this health hazard is no longer worthy of any mention beyond a “and by the way, there’s another salmonella outbreak.”
Six states — Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia — have reported 31 cases of illness with the same outbreak strain of Salmonella Saintpaul. No deaths have been reported.
Maybe the general media figures that states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia are so depressed already with the high unemployment, the continuing layoffs, and now the H1N1 virus that salmonella is not worth mentioning.
Investigators believe seeds used to grow alfalfa may be the source of the pathogen. That’s made the outbreak worse because suspect lots of seeds may have been sold around the country and could account for a large proportion of what’s being used by sprout growers.
Thanks to the LA Times for once again keeping up with and informing us of stories that other media often overlooks.
Update:
There is a spinach recall for bagged spinach complete with salmonella from a Milwaukee based company.
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