There's A Salmonella Outbreak While Food Safety Workers Are On Furlough
Chicken, Hopefully Not Infected Flicker user Bludgeoner86 What are the worst things that could happen during a government shutdown? Well, a hurricane would be pretty bad. Oh, and an outbreak of mutated salmonella would certainly be on the list. Tropical Storm Karen may have fizzled, but that salmonella is entirely too real. Foster Farms, one of the west coast's biggest poultry distributors, has apparently been distributing poultry tainted with a variety of salmonella known as Salmonella Heidelberg. (There are over 2,400 different strains, though only a few are dangerous to people.) A reported 278 people have been sickened in the past six months, all from chicken traced to three Foster Farms sites. This is a particularly dangerous strain; about 42 percent of patients have been hospitalized, which, says a CDC spokesman talking to NBC News, is about twice the rate...