MASSACHUSETTS: State investigating rare outbreak in pasteurized milk - (Associated Press)
December 28, 2007 – 7:47 pmBoston — State health officials say the pasteurization process at a dairy connected to a deadly outbreak of a bacterial illness appeared to have been working properly, meaning that the listeria bacteria that killed two elderly men and sickened two others in Massachusetts entered Whittier Farms’ milk supply after it was pasteurized.
Dr. Alfred DeMaria, the state director of communicable disease control, was cited as saying the dairy appeared to do everything right.
Whittier Farms in Shrewsbury has suspended operations and is cooperating with state officials trying to pinpoint the source of contamination.
The farm mostly delivered its milk to homes in the Worcester area.
The Department of Public Health says a 78-year-old man and a 75-year-old man died in June and October.
The pregnancy of a 34-year-old woman who became ill ended in a miscarriage.
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