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Article: Peanut butter illness hits home.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- February 16, 2007
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Byline: Jonel Aleccia
Feb. 16--Families searched their cupboards, and stores pulled certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter across the Inland Northwest on Thursday after it was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 300 people nationwide.
Two Spokane adults were among four confirmed cases in Washington of a rare strain of the bacteria linked to food-borne illness affecting people in 39 states, health officials said Thursday. It was not clear whether they'd actually consumed the affected peanut butter.
Dozens of other residents, however, called the Spokane Regional Health District to report they'd become ill ...