Ground Buffalo E. coli Sickens Maryland Man
Food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen is representing a man from Baltimore, Maryland, who became sick with E. coli O157:H7 after eating Great Range Ground Bison in mid-June. The product is made by Rocky Mountain Natural Meats of Henderson, Colo., which has been tied by federal health officials to a buffalo E. coli outbreak.
Pritzker Olsen already represents a woman from Lakewood, Colorado, in a Rocky Mountain Natural Meats E. coli lawsuit filed this week in Golden, Colorado. In that case, a woman was hospitalized for several days after eating E. coli-tainted buffalo purchased at a King Soopers grocery store in Lakewood.
In the Baltimore case, the 28-year-old man was called several days ago by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene with information that he was infected with the same strain of E. coli O157:H7 that sickened the Lakewood victim, a cluster of others in Colorado and one person in New York.
Our Maryland client ate ground buffalo and fell ill on June 14. When his illness progressed to bloody diarrhea, he saw a physician in Lutherville, Maryland, where a stool culture was ordered.
Great Range Ground Bison and Nature’s Rancher Ground Buffalo are two of the brands USDA has associated with this outbreak. They are included in the Rocky Mountain Natural Meats recall, issued July 2 for 66,000 pounds of ground buffalo and other bison products.
Pritzker Olsen is in the midst of its own investigation of the Colorado buffalo E. coli outbreak and continues to accept cases from this outbreak. To contact an E. coli attorney at the firm, call 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete the online contact form on the side of this Web page.
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Tags: Buffalo E. coli, E. coli O157:H7
