Hannaford Ground Beef Salmonella Outbreak Proven in Customers' Leftovers
An evidence breakthrough in the Hannaford ground beef Salmonella outbreak shows that two separate samples of leftover ground beef tested positive for the outbreak strain after they were collected from unrelated ill persons' homes in Maine and New York.
In an official update on the Hannaford food poisoning investigation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 19 people in seven states have been diagnosed with infections from the same strain of Salmonella Typhimurium. The pathogen has proven to be resistant to several antibiotics.
When the outbreak was detected in mid-December, Hannaford issued a recall of an undetermined amount of ground beef sold through its supermarkets in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts and Vermont. Health officials are actively concerned more people will become sick if they stored contaminated meat in their home freezers and are unaware of the recall. See complete details of the Hannaford hamburger recall for information on what packages to avoid.
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