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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the USA there 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths that can be traced back to a foodborne pathogens (CDC). Each year, approximately 40,000 laboratories confirmed cases of Salmonella infections are reported to the National Salmonella Surveillance System (CDC). The CDC also says that a foodborne illness outbreak is when a group of people eat the same food and two or more of them come down with the same illness (CDC). Since 2006 there have been forty-two out breaks in the US, and in 2011 alone there have been twelve outbreaks with leads to the big question what causes out breaks and what are the effects. Each case is different and I this case the peanut outbreak of 2009. Now an outbreak starts at the point of contaminations and ends at the point of final numbers are tallied.

On November 10, 2008; CDC's PulseNet staff found a small and widely dispersed reported a twelve states cluster of 13 S. Typhimurium isolates with an unusual PFGE pattern (CDC). The CDC’s time line has this as one of the first thing now this is not the start of this outbreak this is when the CDC started their investigation into the cluster in fact, in most cases there is no true point of contaminations but more a point of infection, in which happen sometime around October 4, 2008 with the most notable numbers. On “November 10, 2008 CDC PulseNet identifies first multistate cluster of Salmonella Typhimurium infections (13 cases in 12 states), CDC begins monitoring for additional reports of cases with same DNA fingerprint” (CDC). By December 28, the Minnesota Department of Health had found from patient interviews that some patients infected, lived or ate meals at a long-term-care facility, or an elementary school (CDC). From the first reported case to the next sever hundred cases after that the FDA, and the CDC where trying to find the common point that all of the cases had, and on “January 9, 2009 MN Dept. of Health reports Salmonella from opened container of King Nut peanut butter – FDA begins investigation of PCA facility in Blakely, GA” (CDC). Now the peanut Corporation of America or PCA makes both peanut butter and peanut paste in which is ship out to other companies and used in their products (“peanut”), which is why it was so wide spread and took longer to trace back to PCA.

On January 10, 2009 King Nut Co. issues recall of peanut butter (CDC) then on January 12, 2009 MN Dept. of Health confirms strain in opened package of King Nut peanut butter (CDC). After that is when all the US started to panic and everybody stopped eating peanut butter, and peanut butter products. FDA investigators reported that the PCA facility in Blakely produced, which were sold too many food companies for use as an ingredient, these peanut butter containing products were widely distributed in the United States and 23 other countries (CDC). By the time it was all over the peanut outbreak was one of largest national outbreak with 714 confirmed cases in fourth-six states and nine people died in January 2009 (“peanut”). States like Ohio that had seventy two confirmed cases, California with sixty-eight confirmed cases, and Massachusetts with fourth-three confirmed cases (CDC). But there are also states like Florida, South Carolina, and Alaska that had zero confirmed cases (CDC). According to the CDC’s time line people were still getting sick up to April 4,