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10-22-2012, 10:00 PM
The illness has claimed one person’s life, a Gaston County toddler, and about a dozen are still in hospitals battling infections.
As 98 people continue to battle E. coli infections, the fair association announced Monday it has closed the fairgrounds to all public events.
http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/e-coli-cases-drop-fairgrounds-shuts-down-to-public-1.34377 (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/e-coli-cases-drop-fairgrounds-shuts-down-to-public-1.34377)
WOW...looks like it started LAST YEAR...
The N.C. Division of Public Health and the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences released a report in November 2011 that stated a slew of infections were likely transmitted in the Kelley Building at the state fair last October.
http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/family-claims-state-negligent-in-preventing-e-coli-1.32551
this fair leaves NC, goes to Columbia, then comes to Charleston.
GOOGLE search (http://www.google.com/#hl=en&spell=1&q=shelby+fair+e+coli&sa=X&ei=J_mFUPDKK4j28wSp-IHoAw&ved=0CBsQBSgA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=92da361fb107ce2f&bpcl=35466521&biw=1577&bih=892)
http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/health-officials-new-e-coli-strain-identified-1.32667
SHELBY — State health officials have discovered a new strain of a contagious bacterial infection in the investigation of an illness outbreak linked to the Cleveland County Fair, according to the county health department director.
Officials confirmed Thursday that eight patients with E. coli share a similar, unknown strain of the infection, said county health director Dorothea Wyant.
“This strain has never been identified before,” Wyant said. “It doesn’t have a name.”
As of Wednesday, 81 people showed symptoms of E. coli throughout the state and South Carolina, with 48 of the cases involving Cleveland County residents. Health officials said all attended the Cleveland County Fair.
The Division of Public Health of the NC Department of Health and Human Services said 52 children and 29 adults have E. coli symptoms.
The state confirmed 22 of the patients have E. coli. A 2-year-old from Gaston County died from complications of the illne
oK, looks like it was the animals, and NOT the food:
E. coli patient questionnaire results show more infected residents visited animals than ate fair food.
“We learned people who got sick and their family members ate the same food. Some family members didn’t get sick,” Wyant said. “We couldn’t find a commonality in the foods.”
As 98 people continue to battle E. coli infections, the fair association announced Monday it has closed the fairgrounds to all public events.
http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/e-coli-cases-drop-fairgrounds-shuts-down-to-public-1.34377 (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/e-coli-cases-drop-fairgrounds-shuts-down-to-public-1.34377)
WOW...looks like it started LAST YEAR...
The N.C. Division of Public Health and the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences released a report in November 2011 that stated a slew of infections were likely transmitted in the Kelley Building at the state fair last October.
http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/family-claims-state-negligent-in-preventing-e-coli-1.32551
this fair leaves NC, goes to Columbia, then comes to Charleston.
GOOGLE search (http://www.google.com/#hl=en&spell=1&q=shelby+fair+e+coli&sa=X&ei=J_mFUPDKK4j28wSp-IHoAw&ved=0CBsQBSgA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=92da361fb107ce2f&bpcl=35466521&biw=1577&bih=892)
http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/health-officials-new-e-coli-strain-identified-1.32667
SHELBY — State health officials have discovered a new strain of a contagious bacterial infection in the investigation of an illness outbreak linked to the Cleveland County Fair, according to the county health department director.
Officials confirmed Thursday that eight patients with E. coli share a similar, unknown strain of the infection, said county health director Dorothea Wyant.
“This strain has never been identified before,” Wyant said. “It doesn’t have a name.”
As of Wednesday, 81 people showed symptoms of E. coli throughout the state and South Carolina, with 48 of the cases involving Cleveland County residents. Health officials said all attended the Cleveland County Fair.
The Division of Public Health of the NC Department of Health and Human Services said 52 children and 29 adults have E. coli symptoms.
The state confirmed 22 of the patients have E. coli. A 2-year-old from Gaston County died from complications of the illne
oK, looks like it was the animals, and NOT the food:
E. coli patient questionnaire results show more infected residents visited animals than ate fair food.
“We learned people who got sick and their family members ate the same food. Some family members didn’t get sick,” Wyant said. “We couldn’t find a commonality in the foods.”