People from twenty states and two foreign countries are ill in the Salmonella outbreak linked to Firefly restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada. The patients live in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Washington state. People from Canada and England … Read more
A Pennsylvania woman has filed a lawsuit against the Firefly on Paradise, a Las Vegas restaurant. She is seeking compensation for allegedly contracting Salmonella food poisoning from the restaurant. She is being represented by Fred Pritzker and his team, who are also representing several other people allegedly sickened in the outbreak. The firm’s client is one … Read more
Salmonella is one of the most common causes of food poisoning in the United States. A bout of it can cause days of abdominal cramps, fever and diarrhea, but can it put you in the hospital? Yes. In fact, Salmonella caused the most outbreak-related hospitalizations in a two-year study of foodborne illness outbreaks in the … Read more
An E.coli outbreak and a Salmonella outbreak were announced within eight days. They had three things in common, both were caused by contaminated ground beef, both caused illness in people who reported eating the meat raw, and in both cases, the raw meat was prepared as a “traditional” dish, although not the same one. The raw … Read more
A five-state Salmonella outbreak has hit Michigan residents hard. Nine of the 16 people sickened by tainted ground beef are from Michigan and at least five of them have been hospitalized according to the Michigan Department of Community Health. Onset illness dates for those sickened in Michigan ranged from Dec. 9, 2012 to Jan. 7, … Read more