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Marler Clark has published 9,581 articles about foodborne illness outbreaks and lawsuits.
December 26, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 23, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 23, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 23, 2004 • Salmonella
Salmonella outbreak
Residents at a Murray Mallee aged care facility have been confirmed as having salmonella. Eleven residents were recently confirmed as having gastro-enteritis and after investigations by the Department of Health some of these people were confirmed as having contracted salmonella. Department of Health Communicable Control Branch acting director Jane Raupach …
December 23, 2004 • Salmonella
A New Vaccine Against Enteritidis Salmonella
Javier Ochoa Repraz defended his PhD thesis at the University of Navarre Faculty of Science on the development of an acellular vaccine aginst salmonella enteritidis. This involves a world pandemia considered to be the most importante zoonosis or illness/infection transmissible salmonellosis by animals to humans under natural conditions. It is …
December 21, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 18, 2004 • Press Releases
Lawsuit filed against Crossroads Farm on behalf of four E. coli victims
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court against the owners and operators of the Crossroads Farm Petting Zoo, the petting zoo linked to an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak at the North Carolina State Fair in October, 2004. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of four children who …
December 17, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 17, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 17, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 16, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 16, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 16, 2004 • Hepatitis A
Men suing Chi-Chi’s for ‘hepatitis soup’
By Chris Osher TRIBUNE-REVIEW December 16, 2004 Even though he had been laid off from his job at US Airways, Bennie Martino had reason to celebrate. Last fall, he and his wife learned they would be allowed to adopt their foster child. They decided to splurge at Chi-Chi’s Mexican Restaurant …
December 16, 2004 • Salmonella
Caterer won’t be punished for food poisoning
The caterer whose baked beans made people at a church picnic sick won’t be punished, reports News 14 Carolina. Police charged Carl Privette with creating a public health hazard and failure to prepare food in a licensed, commercial kitchen. In June, 55 people got salmonella food poisoning from his baked …
December 16, 2004 • Hepatitis A
Lawsuits Continue to Come for Chi-Chi’s
KDKA.com December 16, 2004 Lawsuits against Chi-Chi’s Mexican Restaurant, the center of a major hepatitis A outbreak last year, continue to trickle in. Two more federal lawsuits were filed this week against the chain for making what one attorney calls “hepatitis soup.” Bennie Martino, of Monaca, and Angelo Palitti, of …
December 16, 2004 • Outbreaks
Two lawsuits filed against Chi-Chi's on behalf of hepatitis A outbreak victims
Marler Clark filed two additional lawsuits against Chi-Chi’s on behalf of hepatitis A infection victims. Both lawsuits alleged that the plaintiffs contracted hepatitis A after eating at the Beaver Valley Mall Chi-Chi’s restaurant in October, 2003. The lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania …
December 15, 2004 • Salmonella
Costs high from illness
A salmonella outbreak that occurred almost a year ago in Steamboat Springs cost taxpayers almost $40,000 and cost individuals more than $66,000, not to mention a lot of upset stomachs. Those were the estimates the Routt County Department of Environmental Health gave the City Council on Tuesday night when it …
December 13, 2004 • Hepatitis A
One-Year Anniversary of One of the Largest Hepatitis A Outbreaks in U.S.
Press Release Source: National Partnership for Immunization History Brings Experts Together to Raise Disease Awareness Monday December 13, 2004 Former Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Speaks Out to Protect Children and Communities From the Potentially Deadly Liver Disease ALEXANDRIA, VA–(MARKET WIRE)–Dec 13, 2004 — As a result of hepatitis A …
December 11, 2004 • Outbreaks
Outbreaks at nursing homes put seniors at severe risk
Fifteen residents of the Alterra Clare Bridge assisted-living facility were hospitalized after they became ill with what appeared to be Norovirus infections. While such infections are not usually fatal, one man died of apparent cardiac arrest. An autopsy was performed to determine whether his death was caused by a Norovirus …
December 10, 2004 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis outbreak hits New Caney schools
December 10, 2004 11 News Staff Reports MONTGOMERY COUNTY — The New Caney School district will vaccinate students for hepatitis A after the second outbreak in as many months. Eighteen students there were recently diagnosed with hepatitis A and several had to be hospitalized. …
December 10, 2004 • Hepatitis A
18 New Caney students have hepatitis
By Nancy Flake, Courier Staff December 10, 2004 Conroe, TX – For the second time in less than two months, an outbreak of hepatitis A has been confirmed in New Caney schools, this time affecting 18 students. None of the students with the disease, which affects the liver, has been …
December 09, 2004 • Hepatitis A
Surge in hepatitis A puzzling
Cases rise despite vaccination effort By Kay Lazar, Globe Correspondent December 9, 2004 Months after hepatitis A scares among food handlers at five Massachusetts restaurants grabbed headlines, public health workers across the state are still battling outbreaks of the infectious disease, often among the homeless, substance abusers, and inmates. At …
December 07, 2004 • Salmonella
Don’t take a chance with ‘foods of chance’
Health department inspectors catch one or two unlicensed food vendors each week. Each December the health department shuts down on average between 10 to 15 unlicensed food vendors, says Brian O’Green, environmental health manager for the Yuma County Health Department. Some who are caught are simply unaware they need to …
December 07, 2004 • Outbreaks
December 06, 2004 • Outbreaks
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