Hamburger Linked to Bournedale E coli Outbreak
The owner and director of Camp Bournedale, a popular Massachusetts camp for school children, says state and federal investigators have linked the Lincoln Middle School E. coli outbreak to hamburgers cooked for the Rhode Island group.
Arnie Gerson told reporter Rich Harbert of GateHouse News Service that all raw ground beef has been removed and the camp’s kitchen has been cleared for reopening. Gerson said the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak at Camp Bournedale involving Lincoln Middle School sixth graders has prompted him to ban raw ground beef from the camp. If burgers are ever cooked there again, he said, they will be brought into the camp pre-cooked to avoid another E. coli outbreak.
Health officials from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, USDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been looking for a contaminated food source at Camp Bournedale after 15 visitors from the Rhode Island school became sick with bloody diarrhea.
Two of the students were confirmed as having E. coli O157:H7 infections and at least two were hospitalized. Rhode Island health officials were alerted to the Bournedale outbreak by hospital emergency room personnel who were treating the sick children.
Camp Bournedale in Plymouth, Massachusetts, has been hosting summer boys camps for 73 years and is a popular venue for environmental field trips for students during the school year. It accommodates as many as 300 visitors and their chaperones at one time.
Fred Pritzker, national food safety lawyer, represented victims of a Samonella outbreak at the Stone Environmental Camp for school children in New Hampshire last year. As a leading representative for victims of E. coli infection, Fred calls on Camp Bournedale to immediately pay victims’ medical bills, refund all camp fees submitted by the class and issue an apology to victims for serving poison food.
E. coli O157:H7 is banned from ground beef in the United States. As such, it is an adulterant and victims of hamburger E. coli poisoning have special rights. If your child was sickened in the Camp Bournedale E. coli outbreak, call an experienced E. coli lawyer at Pritzker Olsen Attorneys for a free case consultation: 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free). If you prefer to contact our firm online, complete our contact and information form for a free consultation.
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