ground turkey salmonella outbreak
Oklahoma Girl Sickened from Nationwide Ground Turkey Salmonella Outbreak
Along with seventy-six other people in 26 states across the nation, including one death in Northern California, a young Oklahoma County girl under the age of five is among those affected by a salmonella outbreak caused by tainted ground turkey.
The state’s Communicable Disease division Director Laurence Burnsed said the child (whose case was reported by her physician) suffered cramping and diarrhea for approximately two weeks, did not need hospitalization, and has now fully recovered. According to current data, this is the only reported Oklahoma case associated with the outbreak but the situation is being monitored.
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