(Miami) — The property of an Illinois girl who died earlier this yr from a listeria an infection filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday towards a Florida ice cream firm that well being officers have related to a multistate outbreak.
The lawsuit filed within the Center District of Florida claims that Mary Billman died after consuming contaminated ice cream produced by Sarasota-based Large Olaf Creamery. In keeping with the lawsuit, Billman ate at a Large Olaf location on Jan. 18 throughout a go to to Florida. She grew to become sick and died Jan. 29.
On-line court docket information didn’t checklist an legal professional for Large Olaf who may remark in regards to the lawsuit. The corporate launched a press release Sunday saying that the hyperlink between its ice cream and the listeria outbreak has not been confirmed and is just hypothesis at this level. The corporate has been working with state and federal well being officers since being knowledgeable in regards to the potential contamination, the assertion stated.
“Now we have been clear and have answered all their questions and offered them with all the knowledge requested from us, because the well being and nicely being of the general public is our first precedence,” the Large Olaf Creamery assertion stated.
Large Olaf Creamery has voluntarily contacted retail places to advocate towards promoting their ice cream merchandise, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention stated Saturday in a information launch. Shoppers who’ve Large Olaf Creamery model ice cream at house ought to throw away any remaining product, officers stated.
Listeria is a lethal micro organism that causes signs like fever, muscle aches, nausea and diarrhea. It may be handled with antibiotics, however it’s particularly harmful to pregnant girls, newborns, the aged and people with compromised immune methods.
CDC officers say practically all of the 23 individuals identified to have been contaminated within the outbreak both dwell in, or traveled to, Florida a couple of month earlier than they bought sick. Large Olaf Creamery’s ice cream is produced at a central facility in Sarasota after which distributed to Large Olaf Creamery shops and different retailers.
Listeria is among the most harmful types of meals poisoning. Signs often begin one to 4 weeks after consuming contaminated meals, however can begin as quickly as the identical day. The primary circumstances occurred in January of this yr, however have continued by June, when two of the individuals bought sick, CDC officers stated.
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