Kenosha Salmonella outbreak up to 26 cases

I think I was first introduced to Kenosha, Wisconsin from Weezer’s Happy Days-themed Buddy Holly video. It then resurfaced in That 70s Show as a big town where Eric and friends went to see my favorite movie of all time, Star Wars. I figured it was the burbs-heavy halfway stop between Chicago and Milwaukee that looked a lot like Shermer, Illinois.

Kenosha is home to a growing Salmonella outbreak where additional 16 cases have been confirmed over the past couple of days. According to Fox6, although a business has been temporarily closed as a precaution, health officials do not believe that it is the only source of the outbreak. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also reports:

The health department has not pinpointed a single source of the outbreak, although the department has closed Baker Street Restaurant and Pub on Green Bay Road in Kenosha and is testing employees, Bosovich said.

"We have not found anything there. We did it as a precaution to make sure the employees are negative before returning to work," she said.

The hospital emergency room doctor in the below video has a few gems on Salmonella that aren’t quite correct:

You will be vomiting within 6 hours after eating that food" (more like 12-72 hours -ben)

Mostly it’s because a restaurant has recieved a shipment of food that sits out with no refrigeration (food handler hygiene, common supplier of a ready-to-eat food or cooking temps are probably more likely -ben).
 

 

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.