80 Percent of Raw Milk Illnesses from Family Cow are in Pennsylvania
Sixteen people in Pennsylvania and four in Maryland have suffered campylobacteriosis in the past several weeks and all of them have consumed raw milk from the Chambersburg, Pa., farm known as The Family Cow.
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That's what state health officials have told reporter David Wenner of The Patriot-News, painting a picture of a raw milk outbreak that has sent some of its victims to the hospital. The epidemiological evidence of causality was strong enough after the first illnesses were confirmed late last week for Maryland and Pennsylvania public health officials to alert consumers not to drink any Family Cow raw milk purchased since January 1. That consumer advisory is still in effect as investigators await smoking gun molecular evidence that the outbreak strain of Campylobacter is in the milk.
While those test results have been in process, owners of the farm have been quoted in various media reports, casting doubt that the outbreak was caused by The Family Cow, a farm operation that also sells organic meat and other products.
Food safety lawyers from PritzkerOlsen, P.A., have begun their own investigation of this outbreak and are accepting cases from individuals and families who have been sickened. Free consultations are available at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or simply leave your contact information and an attorney will call you. Our firm is one of the very few in the country practicing extensively in the area of foodborne illness litigation and currently represents a Pennsylvania family in a raw milk Campylobacter lawsuit .
Over the years, PritzkerOlsen has collected millions for victims of food poisoning while also working actively in various campaigns to prevent life-threatening contamination of our food supply. President and founder Fred Pritzker is currently a board member at STOP Foodborne Illness Board of Directors. STOP is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of illness and death from foodborne pathogents.
Raw milk has become popular with some people who believe it has superior nutrition because it's not heated to kill germs like pasteurized milk. Studies, however, have not confirmed this, and federal and state authorities continue to warn about microscopic fecal contamination in milk products that are not pasteurized. One of the repeated complications that arise from Campylobacter infection is GBS, or Guillain-Barre' Syndrome. GBS patients can suffer respiratory failure and acute muscular paralysis that impairs motor function and cause life-long harm, pain and suffering.
