Rhode Island Nursing Homes Among Locations DeFusco's Sold Pastries
A large number of elderly case patients has pushed up the hospitalization rate in the Rhode Island DeFusco's Salmonella outbreak, a spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Department of Health said. Of 33 people sickend in the zeppole Salmonella outbreak, 17 have been hospitalized, spokeswoman Annmarie Beardsworth told the Providence Journal.
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West Warwick Manor Senior Center, Crescent Park Manor in Riverside and Sparrow Point Senior Center in West Warwick are three of the places where recalled DeFusco's Bakery zeppoles and other goods were sold prior to the outbreak.
Beardsworth told the newspaper that HEALTH investigators are testing the cream filling and zeppole pastry shells in search of the outbreak strain of Salmonella. DeFusco's voluntarily shut down its Johnston, Rhode Island, production facility after inspectors found improper refrigeration of cream filling and that pastry shells were stored in boxes that previously contained raw eggs. Salmonella can be associated with almost every type of food known, but is most often found in animals and animal products, including chickens and eggs.
Especially in young children and older adults, Salmonellosis is not to be taken lightly. In these patients and others who have weakened or underdeveloped immune systems, the infection may spread from the intestines to the blood stream, and then to other body sites and can cause Salmonella death unless the person is treated promptly with antibiotics.
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