date:Nov 22, 2013
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to Foster Farms chicken products has grown to 389 cases in 23 states and Puerto Rico, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Seventy-four percent of the cases were reported in California.
Forty-percent of those infected by the pathogen were hospitalized, an unusually high hospitalization rate for an outbreak, according to CDC. The agency also noted that blood infections developed in 14 percent of pe