A little bit of historical past of Salmonella and Cucumbers

With one more Salmonella cucumber outbreak being reported, it is perhaps useful to step not too far again in historical past.

2025

Whole Sicknesses: 26
Hospitalizations: 9
Deaths: 0
Final Sickness Onset: April 28, 2025
States with Instances: AL, CA, CO, FL, IL, KS, KY, MI, NC, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, and VA 

Grown by Bedner Growers, Inc., in Boynton Seaside, Florida, and distributed by Recent Begin Produce Gross sales, Inc., of Delray, Florida.

2013 In April 2013 the CDC and their state and native companions and the FDA, investigated an outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul Infections linked to consumption of imported cucumbers. In whole, there have been 84 outbreak related instances residing in 18 states. Amongst individuals for whom info was accessible, sickness onset dates ranged from January 12, 2013 to April 28, 2013. Unwell individuals ranged in age from lower than 1 yr to 89 years. Amongst 60 individuals with accessible info, 17 (28%) have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. On April 24, 2013 the FDA positioned Daniel Cardenas Izabal and Miracle Greenhouse of Culiacan, Mexico on Import Alert. The cucumbers have been distributed by Tricar Gross sales, Inc. of Rio Rico, Arizona.

2014 In August 2014 public well being investigators detected a rise in Salmonella Newport by way of surveillance of PulseNet, a nationwide molecular subtyping community for foodborne illness. A complete of 275 instances have been reported from 29 states and the District of Columbia. Sickness onset dates ranged from Might 25 to September 29, 2014. Thirty 4 % (48 of 141) have been hospitalized; one demise was reported in an aged man with bacteremia. Sixty-two % (49 of 79) of respondents reported consuming cucumbers within the week earlier than turning into ailing. Officers in Maryland, Delaware and New York labored with the FDA and USDA to conduct an informational traceback from retail institutions to determine some extent of distribution for produce objects. Preliminary traceback led to frequent grower in Maryland’s Jap Shore within the Delmarva area. Officers collected 48 environmental samples from areas the place cucumbers have been grown, harvested and packed. No samples yielded Salmonella though sampling was carried out a number of months after harvest.

2015 On September 4, 2015 the CDC introduced an outbreak of Salmonella Poona linked to consumption of cucumbers grown in Mexico and imported by Andrew & Williamson Recent Produce. On March 18, 2016 the outbreak was declared to be over. A complete of 907 folks contaminated with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Poona have been reported from 40 states. Amongst folks for whom info was accessible, sicknesses began on dates starting from July 3, 2015 to February 29, 2016. 2 hundred 4 ailing folks have been hospitalized, and 6 deaths have been reported. Salmonella infection was not thought-about to be a contributing think about two of the 6 deaths. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback investigations recognized imported cucumbers from Mexico and distributed by Andrew & Williamson Recent Produce because the doubtless supply of the infections on this outbreak.

2016 In April 2016, a multistate cluster of Salmonella Oslo infections with an indistinguishable PFGE sample was detected, involving 14 sufferers in 8 states. Sickness onsets occurred between March 21 and April 9. Epidemiologic proof implicated consumption of Persian cucumbers; nonetheless, Salmonella was not remoted from any cucumbers.

2018 Seven instances of Salmonella Infantis infections have been related to consumption of English cucumbers bought at varied Costco shops. Sicknesses started in August 2018. The final reported sickness occurred on September 15, 2018. Two folks have been hospitalized. Nobody died.

2024 In June 2024, the CDC introduced a multistate outbreak of salmonellosis related to cucumbers. As of August 22, 2024, a complete of 551 instances had been reported by 34 states and the District of Columbia. Instances of Salmonella Africana (n=282) and Salmonella Braenderup (n=269) have been detected. CDC and FDA mixed investigations of those two serotypes as they shared a number of similarities, together with the place and when sicknesses occurred, the demographics of ailing folks and the meals they reported consuming earlier than they grew to become sick. Sicknesses began on dates starting from March 11, 2024 to July 26, 2024. Of 456 folks with info accessible, 155 have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.

Of 226 folks interviewed about meals they ate within the week earlier than sickness onset, 155 (69%) reported consuming cucumbers. Entire genome sequencing (WGS) confirmed that micro organism from sick folks samples have been intently associated.

WGS evaluation of micro organism from 235 folks’s samples predicted resistance to a number of of the next antibiotics: amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ampicillin, azithromycin, cefoxitin, ceftiofur, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, fosfomycin, and tetracycline.

FDA’s traceback investigation recognized Bedner Growers, Inc. in Florida as a provider of cucumbers on this outbreak. This one grower doesn’t account for all sicknesses on this outbreak. FDA collected samples on the grower in Florida and recognized Salmonella Braenderup in untreated canal water. WGS decided that the Salmonella discovered within the water is identical pressure of Salmonella Braendrup that made folks sick. Further soil and water samples collected at Bedner Growers, Inc. have been optimistic for different strains of Salmonella.

Officers within the Pennsylvania Division of Agriculture collected samples of cucumbers from a number of retail areas within the state. Testing recognized a special pressure, Salmonella Bareilly, in a single pattern of those cucumbers.

2014 On Might 31, 2024, Recent Begin Produce Gross sales, Inc. issued a recall. Cucumbers distributed by Recent Begin Produce Gross sales, Inc. have been from a spread growers. The grower that doubtless equipped probably contaminated cucumbers is not rising and harvesting cucumbers for the season. The cucumbers have been shipped from Might 17 to Might 21, 2024. They have been grown in Florida.

In November 2024, CDC, FDA, in collaboration with state and native companions, investigated an outbreak of SalmonellaTyphimurium infections related to American/slicer cucumbers from SunFed Produce, LLC. A complete of 113 folks contaminated with the outbreak pressure of Salmonella have been reported from 23 states. Sicknesses began on dates starting from October 12, 2024, to December 7, 2024. Twenty-eight folks have been hospitalized. Nobody died.