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Narrator: It’s another salmonella warning from the government and this time peanut butter
is the suspected culprit.
Tv anchor 1: This man from Minnesota died after eating contaminated peanut butter.
Tv anchor 2: Another 550 people have gotten sick.
Tv anchor 3: The source was not discovered until someone got sick in Minnesota. This
happened with the salmonella tainted peanut butter.
Text: In 2009 a salmonella outbreak sickened more than 500 and killed 8 throughout the
U.S. A group of University of Minnesota students working with the Minnesota Department of Health
solved the outbreak.
Craig Hedberg: An organization like Team D comes into play, becomes very important because
there the people who are actually talking to the ill people, the cases, and we have
a very powerful tool for linking the out break to a specific source.
Kirk Smith: Team Diarrhea has been apart of the Minnesota Department of Health and the
School of Public Health here in the Twin Cities for 15 years. Were so lucky to have the School
of public Health here in the Twin Cities, it provides us the pool of students to hire
from and that fills a critical need for us.
Carlota Medus: One of my colleagues Steph Myer, who is also an alumnus of the School
of Public Health noticed a lot of the cases had eaten peanut butter. It wasn’t until
we learned about institutional cases that we would be able to link the cases, and some
of the cases to King Nut Peanut Butter. The team D interviews identify that many of the
cases that didn’t appear to be connected to institution, in fact didn’t have connections
to institutions which is pretty much what solved this out break.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar: This is incredibly important and the team helps not only the people of
Minnesota but the entire country. As a part of the efforts for doing right now in congress
with food safety, having regional centers of excellence like we have at the University
of Minnesota and Minnesota Department of Health that’s what we should have all over the
country. So the work of a Team is not just important for Minnesota it’s really important
for the entire country.
Michael Osterholm: The coming together of both the students from the University of Minnesota,
School of Public Health working at the Minnesota Department of Health is the best of all worlds.
It’s that combination that has really been impactful in terms of food safety in this
country, it’s a gift that both institutions have given to each other and in turn the nation
has been the recipient of that gift.
Josh Rounds: It’s really enhanced my education by giving me hands on experience, and there
pretty much the leaders on food born epidemiology nation wide. So seeing how they do an outbreak
investigation, how they investigate cases, its been really helpful.
Carrie Klump: This is like an invaluable experience as a student, I couldn’t of ask for a better
job to really give me some experience as a student so I feel like could go into a full
time job and know what I am doing.
Kirk Smith: We wouldn’t be able to conduct these outbreak investigations and be so successful
at solving outbreaks if we didn’t have Team Diarrhea.