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Jewel Osco Milk
The location of this outbreak was in Illinois. The cause of the outbreak was traced to cartons of 2% milk, as well as tainted milk. Salmonella caused the outbreak and it got many people sick.
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Listeria Caused by Jalisco Cheese
The cause of the outbreak was from eating a mexican-style soft cheese produced by Jalisco Cheese. The location was Los Angeles, and 40 people died. Listeriosis caused the outbreak.
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E. coli at Jack in the Box
In Seattle, California 4 children died and hundreds of customers felt ill because of contaminated meat. E. coli caused the outbreak.
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Frozen Strawberry Scare
In Calhoun County, Michigan, cases of Hepatitis A led to the recall of more than a million pounds of frozen strawberries. Poor handling conditions caused the outbreak and many schools in 6 different states were affected.
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E. Coli at Sizzler
Over 60 cases of E. Coli were linked to Sizzler restaurants in Wisconsin. The outbreak also claimed the life of a 3 year old girl who died from complications of hemolytic uremic syndrome.
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Pilgrim’s Pride Meat Causes Listeria
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Michigan is where theoutbreak of Listeria monocytogenes occured. Sliced turkey deli meat from there is the cause of the illness. 7 deaths caused the recall of 27.4 million pounds of poultry products.
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Hepatitis A Outbreak at Chi-Chi’s
Chi-Chi's restaurant in Monaca, Pennsylvania caused the death of 4 people and sickened hundreds of others, including high school students who passed it on from each other. It was caused by poor food making in bad conditions.
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E. Coli Outbreak at Taco Bell
Two fast food taco restaurants had E. coli outbreaks linked to contaminated lettuce. The first involved 71 Taco Bell customers across 5 states on the East Coast. 8 of those people suffered kidney failure. The second outbreak involved the Taco John’s chain in Iowa and Minnesota, involving a total of 87 people. E. Coli caused the outbreaks.
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Hot Peppers & Peanut Butter Cause Salmonella
April to July 2008, more than 1,329 people across 43 states were infected with Salmonella poisoning, the largest Salmonella outbreak since 1985. They were linked to fresh tomatoes from Mexico and Florida, as well as fresh jalapeños and Serrano peppers from those areas. Nine people died and 22,500 more were sickened.
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Cargill Ground Turkey Causes Salmonella
Cargill, Inc. recalled 36 million pounds of ground turkey after fears that it was contaminated with a strain of Salmonella resistant to antibiotics. It has been linked to at least one death and 79 illnesses across 26 states. That investigation is still going because of food still being shipped out of Cargill.
http://www.healthline.com/health-slideshow/worst-foodborne-illness-outbreaks#5
