A total of 98 per­sons infected with the out­break strains of Sal­mo­nella Infan­tis, Sal­mo­nella Lille, Sal­mo­nella New­port, or Sal­mo­nella Mban­daka have been reported from 21 states. The num­ber of ill per­sons iden­ti­fied in each state is as fol­lows: Alabama (3), Cal­i­for­nia (2), Con­necti­cut (3), Illi­nois (2), Ken­tucky (4), Maine (1), Mary­land (1), Mass­a­chu­setts (5), Min­nesota (3), Mis­sis­sippi (2), Nebraska (1), New Jer­sey (2), New York (8), North Car­olina (5), Ohio (17), Penn­syl­va­nia (7), Ten­nessee (9), Vir­ginia (3), Ver­mont (2), West Vir­ginia (13), and Wis­con­sin (5). 27% of ill per­sons have been hos­pi­tal­ized, and no deaths have been reported. 44% of ill per­sons are chil­dren 10 years of age or younger.

Epi­demi­o­logic, lab­o­ra­tory, and trace­back find­ings have linked this out­break of human Sal­mo­nella Infan­tis, Sal­mo­nella Lille, Sal­mo­nella New­port, and Sal­mo­nella Mban­daka infec­tions to con­tact with chicks, duck­lings, and other live baby poul­try from Mt. Healthy Hatch­ery in Ohio.

Always wash hands thor­oughly with soap and water right after touch­ing live poul­try or any­thing in the area where they live and roam. Do not let live poul­try inside the house. These rec­om­men­da­tions are impor­tant and apply to all live poul­try, regard­less of the age of the birds or where they were purchased.

Mail-order hatch­eries, agri­cul­tural feed stores, and oth­ers that sell or dis­play chicks, duck­lings, and other live poul­try should pro­vide health-related infor­ma­tion to own­ers and poten­tial pur­chasers of these birds prior to the point of pur­chase. This should include infor­ma­tion about the risk of acquir­ing a Sal­mo­nella infec­tion from con­tact with live poultry.

Addi­tional infor­ma­tion avail­able at http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/live-poultry-04–13/index.html

(US CDC 6/4/2013)

The num­ber of peo­ple infected in the out­break of sal­mo­nel­losis after eat­ing at a Fayet­teville, North Car­olina hotel, the Hol­i­day Inn Bor­deaux, has grown to 99, county health offi­cials said on 29 May 2013. At least five peo­ple were hospitalized.

The hotel has two restau­rants — All Amer­i­can Sports Bar and Grill and The Cafe Bor­deaux — as well as a ban­quet kitchen. Hol­i­day Inn Bor­deaux CEO Scooter Deal said the health department’s inves­ti­ga­tion remains active, but the hotel has been cleared to con­tinue doing busi­ness. He said employ­ees are get­ting addi­tional train­ing in proper food han­dling tech­niques with some help from the health depart­ment. More than a dozen hotel employ­ees were among the infected.

Health depart­ment offi­cials said on 29 May 2013 that they are still inves­ti­gat­ing the source of the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. Cum­ber­land County health direc­tor Buck Wil­son said “con­trol mea­sures put in place to pre­vent fur­ther spread of the ill­ness appear to be working.”

(ProMED 6/1/2013)