Marler Clark Announces Listeriosis Illnesses Likely Tied to Wampler Foods, Pilgrim's Pride.Business Editors and Health/Medial/Legal Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2002 Marler Clark, the Seattle law firm nationally known for representing victims of food borne illness, today announced that the CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation intends to confirm the probable linkage between turkey deli meat recalled from Wampler Foods of Pennsylvania and the 44 persons who suffered from Listeria Listeria /Lis·te·ria/ (lis-ter´e-ah) a genus of gram-negative bacteria (family Corynebacterium); L. monocyto´genes causes listeriosis. Lis·te·ri·a n. poisoning in the northeastern United States. Of those, most were hospitalized, 7 died, and 3 pregnant women had miscarriages or stillbirths. Marler Clark has been contacted by several victims of Listeria infections and by families of people who died as a result of Listeria infections. On October 14 alone, Marler Clark's informational website about Listeria -- www.about-listeria.com -- received nearly 5,000 visits. According to the CDC, Listeriosis Listeriosis Definition Listeriosis is an illness caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes that is acquired by eating contaminated food. The organism can spread to the blood stream and central nervous system. is a very serious food borne disease that can be life-threatening to certain individuals, including the elderly or those with weakened immune systems. It can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women. The affected patients live in 8 states: Pennsylvania (14 cases), New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (11 cases in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , 6 in other locations), New Jersey (4 cases), Delaware (4 cases), Maryland (2 cases), Connecticut (1 case), Michigan (1 case), and Massachusetts (1 case). Twenty-six patients were male and 18 were female. Fourteen patients were age 65 or above, 14 patients were age 1 to 64 years and had an immunocompromising medical condition, 7 others were pregnant, and 3 were neonates; 6 patients were age 1 to 64 years and were not pregnant or immunocompromised immunocompromised /im·mu·no·com·pro·mised/ (-kom´pro-mizd) having the immune response attenuated by administration of immunosuppressive drugs, by irradiation, by malnutrition, or by certain disease processes (e.g., cancer). . Of the seven patients who died, six had immunocompromising conditions (3 of these patients were also age 65 or older), and one was a neonate neonate /neo·nate/ (ne´o-nat) newborn infant. ne·o·nate n. A neonatal infant. neonate a newborn animal. . The most recent patient became ill on September 30. Marler Clark (www.marlerclark.com) has extensive experience representing victims of all food borne illnesses. Since 1993 Marler Clark has successfully resolved well over a thousand food borne illness matters. Marler Clark is currently lead counsel in actions resulting from E. coli, Salmonella, Shigella shigella Any of the rod-shaped bacteria that make up the genus Shigella, which are normal inhabitants of the human intestinal tract and can cause dysentery, or shigellosis. Shigellae are gram-negative (see gram stain), non-spore-forming, stationary bacteria. S. , Listeria, Norwalk Virus or Hepatitis A outbreaks across the United States. The partners at Marler Clark also speak frequently on issues of safe food and have formed www.outbreakinc.com, a non-profit business dedicated to training companies on how to avoid food borne diseases. Marler Clark is also proud to sponsor the informational sites of www.about-ecoli.com, www.about-salmonella.com, www.about-shigella.com, www.about-norwalk.com, www.about-campylobacter.com, www.about-listeria.com and www.about-hepatitis.com. |
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