Author: Tony Coveny, Ph.D
Tony Coveny, Ph.D
Tony Coveny, has been practicing infectious disease litigation exclusively for more than a decade, settling cases against major agro-industrial companies, international suppliers, and domestic distributors and manufacturers. Tony Coveny, alongside Ron Simon, has tried cases against restaurants, distributors, national manufacturers, and foreign corporations to recover damages against their clients. From the main office in Houston, which he manages, he speaks to potential and current clients on a daily basis.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of Cyclospora cases reported this summer has more than doubled in the last week with Texas accounting for more than half of all the cases in the 19-state outbreak. Now, even New York City has confirmed its first Cyclospora case. In addition to Texas, investigations are on-going in a number of states, including Maine, Massachusetts, California, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin. According to a CDC spokesperson with the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Alan Dowell, the largest number of cases have been reported just this week.…
So far there are at least 22 victims of E. coli O157 from the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation in the northern part of the State of Minnesota. At the same time, at least 15 cases of a rare strain of E. coli O111 has hit consumers at 9 Applebee’s restaurants across the state. This particular strain of E. coli O111 that has not been recorded in the United States prior to this outbreak. And while tribal leaders are blaming outdoor gatherings, deflecting responsibility from their casinos, in the Applebee’s outbreak the likely cause is a food delivered to Applebee’s…
A café in the Walmart Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas, was closed after nearly 300 individuals became sick with Shigella poisoning. The Salsarita’s Restaurant is at the heart of an investigation of 275 illnesses in nine states, this according to a spokesperson for the Benton County Health Department (BCHD) which has conducted at least two inspections of Salsarita in the wake of the outbreak. The Arkansas Health Department (AHD) has confirmed that many of the victims were employees of Walmart, but others have also been sickened. The cause of the outbreak has not been conclusively determined, but among the violation…
Of the 15 victims of E. coli food poisoning identified by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), most (12) ate at a local Applebee’s restaurant in Blaine, Duluth, Roseville, Woodbury, Willmar, Monticello, Bemidji, or New Hope (all cities in Minnesota) between June 23 and June 29 of this year. And there are two separate locations of Applebee’s implicated in Blaine, MN so far. Investigators are working to trace the possible source of the E. coli poisoning beginning with the common food supplier servicing each of these Applebee’s locations. The MDH is interviewing victims and also asking anyone who has not…
About a dozen individuals have become ill with E. coli food poisoning on the Fond Du Lac Reservation in Minnesota, one of six Chippewa Indian Reservations in the state of Minnesota organized in 1934. Although located in Carlton and Saint Louis Counties, primarily, as a unique territorial entity the State of Minnesota’s Department of Health (MDH) is taking the lead in the investigation and has confirmed a handful of E-coli cases linked to consumption of food on the reservation. According to the MDH, between 6 and 12 victims have presented with symptoms in the last seven days. Preliminary testing confirm…
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has released a list of the nine Applebee’s locations where patrons have become ill with E. coli 0111 poisoning. These include locations in eight cities in Minnesota: two Applebee locations Blaine , and a single Applebee location in each of Bemidji, Duluth, Roseville, Willmar, Woodbury, Monticello and New Hope. The St. Cloud location, on Division Street was also initially on the list of possible sources, but has since been removed by investigators. The MDH has confirmed, so far, at least15 E. coli O111 outbreak victims – at least a dozen of whom ate at…
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is investigating an apparent E. coli outbreak in which at least 13 victims, aged 16-84, have become ill from ingestion of E. coli 0111 bacteria. According to a spokesperson, Applebee’s restaurants in Woodbury, Roseville, Blaine, Monticello, and Duluth Minnesota are at the heart of an investigation into the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 13. A spokesperson for the MDH has revealed that each of the victims became ill after consuming food between June 24 and June 27, with 7 of the reported victims having eaten at Applebee’s. Complicating the investigation, however,…
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the multi-strain Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak linked to Foster Farms raw chicken has sickened individuals in Alabama (1), Alaska (1), Arkansas (1), Arizona (25), California (480), Colorado (9), Connecticut (1), Delaware (1), Florida (4), Georgia (1), Hawaii (1), Idaho (5), Illinois (1), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (1), Michigan (4), Missouri (5), Montana (1), North Carolina (1), Nevada (11), New Mexico (2), Oregon (17), Puerto Rico (1), Tennessee (1), Texas (13), Utah (6), Virginia (4), Washington (20), West Virginia (1), and Wisconsin (1). State health department tallies include additional victims – with…
Foster Farms Brand Chicken is one of the nation’s most popular in both supermarkets and for use in restaurant cooking. But over the last 15 months, at least 574 confirmed cases of Salmonella Heidelberg, including as many as seven separate strains of the bacteria, have been linked to consumption of this product. And while it is impossible to state with certainly, the actual number of victims may be approaching twenty thousand, based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimation that only about 1 in 30 victims of food poisoning seek medical attention. And in fact in March…
Fresno-based Foster Farms, one of the nation’s leading producers of raw chicken, has finally issued a limited recall of at least one product that has been implicated in a massive outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg – raw chicken breasts. With number of illnesses still growing, including at least 600 cases in California alone, Foster Farms has resisted ever growing calls to issue a recall of its raw chicken. As such, the outbreak that includes at least seven strains of Salmonella Heidelberg has continued unabated for over a year, sickening many and hospitalizing hundreds with antibiotic resistant strains of Salmonella Heidelberg. Foster…