A single strain of salmonella has sickened 388 people in 42 states, sending some to the hospital, over the past three months. There's only one problem — so far no one's been able to figure out what's causing it.
The outbreak led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase its efforts to find the source this week, pulling in staff from other areas to work on the situation, says Frederick Angulo, deputy chief of enteric diseases.
The bacteria is called salmonella Typhimurium. Each case has been laboratory matched by DNA fingerprint, Angulo says.
Source: USA Today
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