04.10.2016

CDC, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and Department of Agriculture, several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Oranienburg infections. Eight people infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Oranienburg were reported from three states.
Whole genome sequencing showed that isolates from ill people are closely related genetically to one another. Two ill people were hospitalized, and no deaths were reported. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback investigations identified shell eggs distributed by Good Earth Egg Company of Bonne Terre, Missouri as the likely source of the infections in this outbreak.
The strain of Salmonella Oranienburg in this outbreak also is closely related genetically to a Salmonella Oranienburg strain from a 2015 outbreak linked to the Good Earth Egg Company. In the 2015 outbreak, 52 people infected with the outbreak strain were reported from six states. In response to the 2015 outbreak, Good Earth Egg Company recalled all of its shell eggs on January 9, 2016.