Egg Salmonella Outbreak Updates From CDC
Egg Salmonella outbreak information has been updated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding the egg recall and salmonella outbreak associated with Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms.
The latest highlights from the CDC ongoing investigation include:
"From May 1 to August 31, 2010, approximately 1,519 illnesses were reported that are likely to be associated with this outbreak. FDA identified Salmonella with PFGE patterns indistinguishable from the outbreak strain in egg farm environmental samples."
The CDC advises consumers NOT to consume recalled eggs, which could still be in grocery stores, restaurants and refrigerators in homes. People who have these eggs should throw them away. A searchable database of recalled egg products is available to consumers.
Egg Salmonella Outbreak Timeline
Part of the way health officials determine whether patients are part of an outbreak is by analyzing the timeline of illnesses. This includes the following steps:
- Incubation time: the time it takes for symptoms to show after consuming the tainted food. This is typically 1-3 days for Salmonella
- Time to contact health care provider: how long it takes a patient to contact a doctor after experiencing their first symptoms.
- Time to diagnosis: The time it takes to get test results back from a patient to confirm that he or she is, in fact, sick with salmonella.
- Sample shipping time: the time it takes to ship the salmonella sample to the state public health authorities that will perform “DNA fingerprinting”.
- Time to serotyping and DNA fingerprinting
