Bison E. coli Outbreak Reaches Baltimore

Posted on July 10, 2010 by PritzkerLaw

A 28-year-old man who regularly eats Great Range Ground Bison fell sick with E. coli O157:H7 last month and was confirmed by Maryland health officials to be part of the Rocky Mountain Natural Meats E. coli outbreak.

Pritzker Olsen law firm is representing the man, who lives in Baltimore. He was called several days ago by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene with information that the E. coli bacteria that made him sick shares the same DNA fingerprint with five cases in Colorado and one in New York.

The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced July 2 that there is an association between this E. coli outbreak and ground buffalo meat produced by Rocky Mountain Natural Meats of Henderson, Colorado.

Pritzker Olsen already represents a woman from Lakewood, Colorado, in a Colorado buffalo E. coli lawsuit filed this week against Rocky Mountain Natural Meats. In that case, 53-year-old Fran Vanse was hospitalized for several days after eating contaminated buffalo purchased at a King Soopers grocery store in Lakewood.

Our Maryland client has been eating Great Range Ground Bison for years. He ate ground buffalo last month and fell ill on June 14. When his illness progressed to bloody diarrhea, he saw a physician in Lutherville, Maryland, where a stool culture was ordered.
 
Great Range Ground Bison and Nature’s Rancher Ground Buffalo are two of the brands USDA has associated with this outbreak. They are included in the Rocky Mountain Natural Meats recall, issued July 2 for 66,000 pounds of ground buffalo and other bison products.
 
Pritzker Olsen has launched its own investigation into the Great Range Ground Bison E. coli outbreak and continues to accept cases. To contact an E. coli attorney at the firm, call 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete the online contact form on the side of this Web page.
 
Our firm is a leading national practitioner in foodborne illness litigation and we have collected millions for victims of food poisoning. 
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