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  • 18 hospitalized in Lancaster botulism outbreak that killed 54-year-old woman

    04/22/2015 2:54:26 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 12 replies
    dispatch.com ^ | Misti Crane & Holly Zachariah
    LANCASTER, Ohio — A suspected botulism outbreak that began in Lancaster yesterday has sickened at least 18 people and led to the death of a 54-year-old woman. Another 21 people who attended the potluck are not showing symptoms and are being watched because of concerns they could become ill, said Cassie Bala, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Health. The youngest person hospitalized with symptoms of the food-borne illness is 9 and the oldest is 87, Bala said. All of those with symptoms have received an intravenous antitoxin, said Fairfield Department of Health spokeswoman Jennifer Valentine. Patients did not begin...