NM Confirms E. coli in Costco Gouda Cheese
New Mexico's role in the Costco Gouda cheese E. coli outbreak has yielded a positive lab finding important to the investigation. A New Mexico newspaper reported that state experts found a genetic match between an intact sample of Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese sold at Costco and the outbreak strain of E. coli 0157:H7.
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Previously, state and federal officials had only matched the Costco outbreak strain of E. coli to previously opened packages of the cheese taken from case patients' homes. In New Mexico and four other states, there are at least 37 confirmed illnesses in a cheese E. coli outbreak that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has linked to Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda sold and sampled at Costco from October 5 through Nov. 1. Of the 37 known cases, 19 were in Arizona, 10 in Colorado, 3 in California, 3 in New Mexico and two in Nevada. Cases in New Mexico include a 41-year-old man, a 7-year-old girl from Bernalillo County and a 4-year-old boy from Valencia County who are all recovering.
"Collaboration with the Dairy Division of the New Mexico Department of Agriculture led to the collection of the intact samples of cheese that definitively linked a specific brand to human cases," Dr. C. Mack Sewell, state epidemiologist for the Department of Health, told the Alamogordo Daily News.
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