date:Dec 10, 2012
all-too-similar experience two years later when he was hospitalized just after Christmas 2008 with what became diagnosed as a Salmonella infection. Tousignant, a sociable, 78-year-old Korean War veteran and three-time Purple Heart recipient from Minnesota, had recently moved into an assisted living facility where he was eating a peanut butter sandwich almost every day.
As it turned out, Tousignant was part of a Salmonella outbreak that eventually sickened at least 714 people across 46 states. J