WHAT TO WATCH FOR
The Food and Drug Administration is still working to determine if the affected were sold directly to consumers at grocery stores.
WHAT IS SALMONELLA?
Salmonella is the name of both an illness and the bacteria that causes it. Salmonella live in the intestines of people and animals and people can get infected in a number of ways, but usually through eating contaminated food. Salmonella infections are common and sicken about 1.35 million people in the United States every year, according to the CDC. Infection is more common in the summer because warmer weather and unrefrigerated foods create ideal conditions for the bacteria to grow, and antimicrobial-resistant salmonella infections are on the rise. Most people with salmonella infection experience diarrhea, stomach cramps, headache, nausea and vomiting.
BIG NUMBER
1 in 25. That’s how many packages of chicken at the grocery store are contaminated with salmonella, per the CDC.
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WHEN WAS THE LAST BIG SALMONELLA OUTBREAK?
More than 1,000 people were sickened across 37 states in 2021 when whole fresh onions imported from Chihuahua, Mexico caused an American salmonella outbreak. No deaths were reported, but 260 people were hospitalized. Public health officials are currently investigating several multistate outbreaks of salmonella linked to contact with backyard poultry, which so far have sickened more than 800 people and killed someone in Washington state.
DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH TAYLOR FARMS?
No. Taylor Farms has been linked to an outbreak of cyclosporiasis that has sickened more than 20,000 people and killed two. The CDC has said the illness, caused by the Cyclospora cayetanensis parasite, likely came from contaminated shredded iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico, but there is no indication the two outbreaks are connected.
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