Salmonella outbreak sickens 127 in 25 states; cake mix E coli probe endsA rapidly growing Salmonella Oranienburg outbreak linked to an unknown food source has sickened 127 people, some of them part of restaurant clusters, from 25 states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Sep 17 announcement.The number of cases reported to the CDC has grown from 20 on Sep 2, when the CDC identified the outbreak.
Patient ages range from 1 to 82 years, and 59% are female. Of 49 people with available information, 18 were hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.
The latest illness onset was Sep 1.So far, interviews with sick patients have not pointed to a specific food, but several restaurant subclusters have been identified