A recall of Marie Callender’s Frozen Cheesy Chicken and Rice dinners was announced on June 17, 2010 after ConAgra was informed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of an investigation involving 30 people in 15 states who had been diagnosed with Salmonella Chester. The actual number of victims in this outbreak, however, is likely much larger than 30. The CDC estimates that in Salmonella outbreaks, the actual number of victims is as many as 38 times the number of confirmed cases.
As of June 25 2010, the number of ill people identified in this outbreak in each state was as follows: AK (1), CA (5), CO (2), GA (7), IL (1), KY (1), MA (2), MN (2), MO (1), NC (1), OK (1), OR (2), SC (2), TN (1), TX (1), UT (2), VA (4), Among those for whom information is available about when symptoms started, illnesses began between April 5, 2010 and June 3, 2010.
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