Salmonella in chicken from the Foster Farms poultry
processing plant in California continues to make people sick a year after the
first cases were identified.
Fifty new cases were identified within the last
three months, bringing to 574 the total number of people infected with strains
tied to the outbreak that began more than a year ago, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
More than a third of those people felled since
March 1 had to be hospitalized for treatment against Salmonella Heidelberg
strain of food-poisoning bacteria.
Thirteen percent of patients developed blood
infections as a result of their illness, the Centers for Disease Control says.
None of the sickened people have died.
The investigation led to the recall
in October 2013 of 23,000 cooked rotisserie chicken products sold at a Costco
store in San Francisco.
There have been cases linked to this chicken in
27 states and Puerto Rico, but 77 per cent of the victims are Californians.
