Danish officials are trying to find the source of a Listeria outbreak that has affected 17 people since 2019.
Two illnesses have provisionally been registered in 2024, said the Statens Serum Institut (SSI).
Patients have been infected with the same type of Listeria monocytogenes since the summer of 2019.
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Eleven confirmed and probable cases of norovirus illness in San Diego County have been linked to frozen oysters imported from South Korea, public health officials announced Tuesday.
Customers who ate the oysters between March 31 and April 1 at 100s Seafood Grill Buffet in Mission Valley became sick, with one person going to the emergency room, according to the county.
Angel’s Restaurant Pte Ltd fined for multiple food safety lapses
5 Angel’s Restaurant Pte Ltd was fined $3,300 for food safety lapses committed under
the Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) Regulations.
6 In January 2023, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and SFA received reports of
gastroenteritis involving 19 persons after consuming catered food prepared by Angel’s
Restaurant Pte Ltd, located at 3017 Bedok North Street 5 #02-31, Gourmet East Kitchen,
Singapore 486121. None of the affected cases was hospitalised.
Frozen, raw, half-shell oysters Lots B231126 and B240103, harvested from Designated Area No. 1 on 11/26/2023 and 1/3/2024, and Lot B240214 harvested from Designated Area No. 2 on 2/14/2024, and processed by JBR (KR 15 SP) in Tongyeongsi, Republic of Korea on 11/27/2023, 1/4/2024, and 2/15/2024. Lots B240103 and B240214 may be labeled with Amazing Sea Brand. The oysters were distributed to restaurants and retailers in California and may have been distributed to other states as well.
The photos below are included as an example of product tag and case labeling from one (1) of the three (3) lots identified above and include information specific to Lot B231126, harvested from Designated Area No. 1 on 11/26/2023 with production date 11/27/2023. The tag and label information for Lot(s) B240103 and B240214 would include similar corresponding details appropriate to each Lot.
On 4/9/2024, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) notified the FDA of an outbreak of norovirus illnesses associated with consumption of oysters from the Republic of Korea. On 4/15/2024, authorities at the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries in the Republic of Korea advised the firm to voluntarily initiate a recall of the distributed lots of frozen, raw, half-shell oysters due to possible norovirus contamination. The distributed lots include frozen, raw, half-shell oysters Lots B231126 and B240103, harvested from Designated Area No. 1, and Lot B240214, harvested from Designated Area No. 2, and processed by JBR (KR 15 SP) in Tongyeongsi, Republic of Korea on 11/27/2023, 1/4/2024, and 2/15/2024, and shipped to distributors in California. The product may have been distributed to other states as well.
The Statens Serum Institut is currently investigating a protracted disease outbreak with Listeria monocytogenes in collaboration with the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration and the Norwegian Food Institute DTU.
Listeria infection is a foodborne illness that can cause blood poisoning or meningitis in people who have a weakened immune system. The disease can also be dangerous for pregnant women and their unborn child.
Listeria outbreaks are often long-lasting, the infection can occur for a period of up to several years. The current outbreak includes 17 people who have become ill over a six-year period. Two cases of illness have provisionally been registered in 2024.
A total of 17 people have been infected with the same type of listeria since the summer of 2019. The patients are 13 women and 4 men with a median age of 73 years, with one patient in their 20s and four in their 80s. The patients live throughout the country. All have been hospitalized. Two people have died within 30 days of detection of the infection.
The bacteria is of the type Listeria monocytogenes . By whole-genome sequencing of the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria isolated from the patients, it can be seen that they are very closely related and belong to sequence type 1607.
No source has been identified yet.
One person died and more than 75 took ill due to food poisoning in Majri colliery area in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district on Sunday, a health official said.
The incident occurred after more than 400 people had ‘prasad’ on Saturday evening during a religious function on the eve of Chaitra Navratri Mahotsav in a Kali temple, he said.
“Some of them started feeling unwell after reaching home and 79 arrived at Warora civil hospital past midnight. The condition of six persons was critical and they were shifted to Chandrapur district hospital. Of these, a man identified as Gurufem Yadav died,” the official said.
The other patients are stable and are under treatment, he added.
As many as 15 students, all studying in Grade 5 and 6, of the Social Welfare Boys’ Residential School in Bhuvanagiri, fell ill after consuming contaminated food. The students complained of vomiting, stomach ache and diarrhoea on Saturday, a day after they ate lemon rice.
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