The kids always get it worst.
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felled at least four people, including a toddler who remains hospitalized.
And last night, Washington state officials reported that two recent infections with E. coli O157 have been identified in Washington residents who drank raw, unpasteurized milk. The two cases confirmed this month bring the count of infections this year associated with one Bellingham dairy to eight.
Each year, several dozen people are usually sickened by raw milk in Minnesota. But this is the first outbreak — two or more cases that are linked — in at least 15 years, Health Department officials say.
Assistant state epidemiologist Richard Danila said the Health Department found four cases of E. Coli O157:H7 between May 1 and 21, all of which had the same DNA fingerprint.
Two of those sickened were school-age children, one was a man who was at least 70 years old and the fourth was a toddler. All four were hospitalized: one overnight, two for four days, and one, the toddler, is still in the hospital after being admitted late last week.
Today, the Star-Tribune reports that Michael Hartmann, the organic farmer who produced the implicated raw milk in Minnesota, has for years fought the (1).jpg)
government’s efforts to regulate him. He last had a license to sell Grade A milk in 2001. He has kicked inspectors off his property, refused to tell a judge his name in court and asserted he is a "natural man" with a constitutional right to raise and sell food without government interference.
Dr. Kirk Smith, supervisor of state Health Department foodborne disease investigations said Thursday that the investigation of his dairy is continuing but said they have little doubt it produced the raw milk containing a deadly strain of E. coli, adding,
"I am concerned that we are going to hear about more cases.” It often takes up to two weeks for cases to surface.
Hartmann declined to talk about the outbreak with a reporter Thursday, other than to say, "It’s all been blown out of proportion."
I doubt the parents of the toddler feel that way.
In Washington, the two new patients say they drank raw milk produced by Jackie’s Jersey Milk in Whatcom County. WSDA has conducted additional testing of the firm’s product, but has not found E. coli in the milk. WSDA continues to work with the farm to review the dairy’s production and product handling practices.
The firm issued a product recall notice in February after WSDA found E. coli during routine sampling of the farm’s raw milk. Soon after the February recall, six patients (1).jpg)
with E. coli infections reported drinking the dairy’s product. People who were sick said they got the milk at retail stores in King, Snohomish, and Skagit counties.
An updated table of raw-milk related outbreaks is available at
http://bites.ksu.edu/rawmilk
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urging anyone who may have recently purchased milk from the Hartmann Dairy Farm, also known as M.O.M.’s, to discard the product and not consume it..jpg)
sickened about 35 people.
The event was a benefit for New Pathways of Brainerd, a group that helps homeless families with children find safe transitional shelter. 
During a recent trip to a Minneapolis restaurant, I ordered what is perhaps Minneapolis’s most significant contribution to the culinary world: the “Jucy Lucy.” 
But the true food safety implications of stuffing a ground beef patty with cheese or other ingredients are not well documented (left, not exactly as shown). The amounts of fat and water that escape from the cheese during cooking are not documented, and how those amounts affect the survival of foodborne pathogens present in the patty is unclear. It has been documented that E. coli O157:H7 shows increased resistance to heat in patties with higher fat and lower moisture contents[1]. It is possible that the composition of a stuffed burger, depending on the stuffing and fat and moisture content of the ground beef, could favor the survival of foodborne pathogens relative to a burger with no stuffing.
That’s an awkward sentence. But not as awkward as the statement by study co-author Dennis Degeneffe , a research fellow at the center, who told 
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State officials initially discovered the contaminated product through product testing conducted after MDH epidemiological evidence and an investigation by MDA’s Rapid Response Team implicated King Nut creamy peanut butter as a likely source of Salmonella infections in Minnesota residents.
State health and agriculture officials said today that recent cases of salmonellosis in Minnesota have been linked to raw, frozen, breaded and pre-browned, stuffed chicken entrees. The implicated product is Milford Valley Farms Chicken Cordon Bleu and Chicken Kiev. This product is sold at many different grocery store chains.
Findings – Differences between self-reported and observed food safety
So last December during break, we drove to Minnesota, with the dogs, and hung out with some of her extended family.
I gave them some 
Minnesota health officials said that stuffed chicken entrees — which look cooked because they’re breaded and prebrowned so that the breading sticks — are blamed for five salmonella outbreaks since 1998 that sickened 71 people.