A employee who has recovered from a case of salmonella might have been infected with the illness while working in a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC said Thursday.
The agency has launched an investigation into how the person, who is back at work, became infected.
The individual had been working with the same strain of salmonella that caused the infection.
All safety protocols were being followed, according to the CDC, and there are no other cases of exposure or illness.
The agency didn’t disclose any other information about the employee.
Salmonella is responsible for 1 million cases of foodborne illness in the United States annually, including 19,000 hospitalizations and 380 deaths.
Illness begins between 12 and 72 hours after exposure to the salmonella bacteria. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps and last four to seven days.
Salmonella is an organism that causes abdominal pain, diarrhea (sometimes bloody) and fever.
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