Minnesota has been hard hit by the turkey Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 164 people in 35 states, according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Sixty-three people have been hospitalized, one person from California has died.
With 17 people sick, Minnesota has reported more illnesses than any other state. As of November 8, cases reported from other states are as follows: Illinois (16), California (13), New York (12), Texas (11), New Jersey and Virginia with eight cases each; Florida and North Carolina with seven cases each; Colorado, Michigan and Wisconsin with six cases each; Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland and Massachusetts with three cases each; and Georgia, North Dakota and Oregon with two cases each. Fifteen states have reported one case each. They are: Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee. 
Case-patients, who range in age from less than one year to 91 years old, have reported onset-of-illness dates ranging from November 20, 2017, to October 20, 2018. The CDC announced the outbreak on July 19, 2018. Since that time, the outbreak has grown to include 74 more people from 26 states.
Case-patients reported preparing raw turkey products including whole turkeys, turkey parts and ground turkey before they became ill. Some of them have suffered severe illness and developed serious complications despite their best efforts to handle the raw poultry products safely.
That’s because sometimes, there are so many bacteria on the product or the strain is so virulent that even when consumers follow good food safety measures they can get sick.
The Salmonella attorneys at the national food safety law firm Pritzker Hageman are representing several clients from Minnesota sickened in this outbreak. One of them is a 5-year-old girl who developed osteomyelitis, a painful bone infection, as a complication of her Salmonella infection. She is one of the six case-patients sickened in this outbreak who did not eat turkey before they became ill, but handled it or lived with someone who handled it. According to the CDC, three of the people sickened in this outbreak worked at a turkey-processing facility or lived with someone who did. Three of them fed their pets raw turkey pet food.
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