COLORADO farm town copes with salmonella - (Associated Press)
April 1, 2008 – 8:26 pmhttp://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iHxBMlCCB6WgGxC_ofkyqpSu0uXwD8VOVOUO0
Alamosa, Colo. More than 300 of Alamosa’s 8,500 people have been sickened with Salmonella since the first victims showed symptoms on March 7. Some 73 cases have been confirmed, with 11 people requiring hospitalization. Half the victims have been under age 11.
The story says that the particular strain that caused the outbreak is one found in the feces of local deer, birds, and other warm-blooded animals. How it got into the water remains a mystery.
City Manager Nathan Cherpeski was cited as saying the search for the source is frustrating, adding, “As we get evidence, it will start to appear we have the source. But at the end of the day we start to have evidence it’s something else.”
Jonathan Yoder, a waterborne epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control, which tracks such incidents, was cited as saying that between 1971 and 2004 there have been 15 salmonella outbreaks in municipal […]
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