An E. coli outbreak at the Rice County Fair has been linked to outbreaks at other county fairs and festivals during July including the Olmsted County Fair, the Polk County Fair and the Nashwauk 4th of July Festival. The source of the illnesses has been identified as the Zerebko Zoo Tran traveling petting zoo. Petting zoos and … Read more
The ongoing E.coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to the Zerebko Zoo Tran traveling petting zoo is just one in a long line of outbreaks at state and county fairs around the country in the last few years. The Zerebko zoo goes from fair to fair during the summer months, providing animals for children to see and … Read more
An E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to various county fairs and events around the state of Minnesota has sickened at least 13 people. The illnesses were caused by a traveling petting zoo, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. That traveling group, Zerebko Zoo Tran, goes from fair to fair during the summer. All of … Read more
A petting zoo is the possible source of an E.coli outbreak at the Rice County Fair, according to the Fairbault Daily News. Preliminary tests by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) show that the animals from Zerebko Zoo Tran petting zoo were positive for E. coli O157:H7, the same kind of bacteria that sickened at least eight … Read more
According to the Faribault Daily News, an E. coli outbreak in Rice County, Minnesota has been traced back to the Rice County Fair. An email was apparently sent to the Rice County Agriculture Society board of Directors from the Minnesota Department of Health informing them that a case of E. coli had been reported. Between … Read more
An E.coli infection from a petting zoo visit has landed a seven-year-old girl in the hospital battling kidney failure. The girl, one of at least three children to contract E.coli infections after contact with the animals at Dehn’s Pumpkins in Dayton, MN, developed hemoyltic uremic syndrome (HUS), a complication of some E.coli infections, and faces … Read more
E. coli HUS outbreak investigators in Minnesota are delving into the operational history at Dehn’s Pumpkins to determine what prevention plans were in place to combat the well-known risk of child E. coli infections from dangerous bacteria in petting zoo settings. One of the active observers of the Dehn’s outbreak is HUS attorney Fred Pritzker, … Read more
The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting that three people are ill with confirmed E. coli O157:H7 infections after contact with animals at Dehn’s Pumpkins’ petting zoo in Dayton, MN. The three cases are all children, ranging in age from 15 months to 7 years. One child is hospitalized with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a … Read more
The Cleveland County Fair Working Group held a press conference this week to give their recommendations on how to make the event safer. Last year’s outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 at the Fair sickened more than 100 people; seven people developed hemolytic uremic syndrome. A toddler died as a result of the infection. In early May, … Read more
According to WSOCTV.com, a task force in Cleveland County, North Carolina is recommending that petting zoos be banned from county fairs after an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak last year sickened 106 people in 2012. One child died in that outbreak, and dozens of children were hospitalized. Investigators determined that the petting zoo was the initial … Read more