Campylobacter toll up to 35; strain found in unopened bottles

The Maryland health department has found bacteria in two bottles of raw milk produced by Pennsylvania’s Family Cow as the number of people sickened in the campylobacter outbreak on Thursday grew to 35 in four states — including 28 confirmed cases in Pennsylvania, four in Maryland and one in New Jersey.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Laboratories Administration confirmed the presence of Campylobacter jejuni in two unopened raw milk samples purchased from The Family Cow farm, according to a department news release issued Wednesday.

The final test results of samples taken at the farm by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Friday and Monday may be available on Friday, according to Agriculture Department Press Secretary Samantha Krepps.

And because public health types don’t have enough to do, New Jersey moved a step closer today to approving on-farm sales of raw milk.

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