跟进：生蚝沙门氏菌疫情出现首起诉讼：Colorado州女子起诉Whole Foods与Virginia牡蛎公司，称6月食用后四个月仍检出阳性

美国科罗拉多州（Colorado）Lafayette 居民 Sherry DeCrow 与丈夫 John Hadar 10月30日向科罗拉多联邦地区法院提起诉讼，被告为 Whole Foods Market Rocky Mountain/Southwest, L.P. 与弗吉尼亚州 Northumberland County 的 The Little Wicomico Oyster Company, LLC。这是与 Little Wicomico River 生蚝相关的多州沙门氏菌（Salmonella Telelkebir）疫情出现的首起公开诉讼，案名为 DeCrow v. Whole Foods Market Rocky Mountain/Southwest, L.P., et al.，原告由食源性疾病律所 Marler Clark 代理。

诉状称，DeCrow 今年6月5日在 Superior 的 Whole Foods 门店（303 Marshall Road）海鲜柜台买了一打生 Blue Point 牡蛎并于当日食用，数小时后出现发烧、寒战、呕吐、腹泻以及严重的腹部与关节疼痛，粪便培养检出沙门氏菌阳性。四个多月后她仍检出阳性，医生正在评估她是否出现反应性关节炎等感染后并发症。发病前，她从事硬木地板安装工作。

诉状还称，该店海鲜柜台员工曾两次告诉 DeCrow，生蚝可以保存并在三到四天内食用。Marler Clark 管理合伙人 William Marler 表示：「Sherry 没有做错任何事。她从一家自己信任的商店买了牡蛎，询问了如何安全处理，并照着得到的建议做了。四个月后她仍在排出沙门氏菌，并承受可能持续多年的关节疼痛。」

疫情背景方面，美国疾控中心（CDC）与食品药品监管局（FDA）10月19日公布疫情时报告12个州共27人患病，其中科罗拉多州2人，发病始于5月下旬；弗吉尼亚州卫生部门报告的数字更大，为18个州53人。涉事公司召回的范围仅覆盖9月18日至10月8日采收的牡蛎。Marler 对此表示：「召回窗口告诉你的是问题何时被发现，而不是何时开始。人们在5月和6月就因这些牡蛎生病，那些牡蛎早在任何人告诉公众停食之前就已售出并被吃掉。」

被召回的牡蛎曾分销至加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、康涅狄格州、哥伦比亚特区、佛罗里达州、佐治亚州、伊利诺伊州、马里兰州、密苏里州、北卡罗来纳州、新泽西州、内华达州、纽约州、宾夕法尼亚州、德克萨斯州与弗吉尼亚州的餐厅和零售商，并可能被进一步分销。疫情迄今有5人住院、无死亡报告。

诉状提出的诉求包括严格产品责任、违反默示担保与过失责任，Hadar 另提出配偶权益损失诉求。Whole Foods 与 Little Wicomico 公司尚未就诉讼公开回应，相关指控尚待法院审理认定。

来源：PR Newswire（Marler Clark 发布）：科罗拉多州女子就生蚝沙门氏菌疫情提起诉讼

关联：CDC与FDA调查生蚝沙门氏菌疫情：12个州27人感染 涉事Virginia公司召回9月18日至10月8日采收的牡蛎

Follow-Up: First Lawsuit in Oyster Salmonella Outbreak as Colorado Woman Sues Whole Foods and Virginia Oyster Company

Sherry DeCrow of Lafayette, Colorado, and her husband, John Hadar, filed a lawsuit on October 30 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against Whole Foods Market Rocky Mountain/Southwest, L.P. and The Little Wicomico Oyster Company, LLC of Northumberland County, Virginia. The case, DeCrow v. Whole Foods Market Rocky Mountain/Southwest, L.P., et al., is the first publicly announced lawsuit arising from the multistate Salmonella Telelkebir outbreak linked to raw oysters harvested from Virginia's Little Wicomico River. The plaintiffs are represented by the foodborne illness firm Marler Clark.

According to the complaint, DeCrow bought a dozen raw Blue Point oysters at the seafood counter of the Whole Foods store at 303 Marshall Road in Superior on June 5, 2026, and ate them that day. Within hours she became violently ill with fever, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, and severe abdominal and joint pain, and her stool culture was positive for Salmonella. More than four months later she is still testing positive, and her doctors are evaluating her for reactive arthritis and other post-infectious complications. Before her illness, she worked as a hardwood flooring installer.

The complaint also alleges that on two occasions Whole Foods seafood counter employees told DeCrow raw oysters could be kept and eaten over three to four days. "Sherry did nothing wrong. She bought oysters from a store she trusted, asked how to handle them safely, and followed the advice she was given," said William Marler, managing partner of Marler Clark. "Four months later she is still shedding Salmonella and dealing with joint pain that may stay with her for years."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the outbreak on October 19, reporting 27 people sick in 12 states, including two in Colorado, with illnesses beginning in late May. The Virginia Department of Health has reported a larger count of 53 people in 18 states. Little Wicomico's recall covers only oysters harvested from September 18 through October 8. "The recall window tells you when the problem was caught, not when it started," Marler said. "People were getting sick from these oysters in May and June. Those oysters were sold and eaten long before anyone told the public to stop."

The recalled oysters were distributed to restaurants and retailers in California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia, and may have been further distributed. Five people have been hospitalized, with no deaths reported.

The complaint asserts claims for strict products liability, breach of implied warranty and negligence, along with a loss of consortium claim by Hadar. Whole Foods and Little Wicomico have not publicly responded to the lawsuit, and the allegations remain to be decided by the court.

Source: PR Newswire (Marler Clark release): Colorado woman sues over oyster Salmonella outbreak

来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）

图片来源：图：生食牡蛎（资料图，非涉事产品）。Austrid taldrikul，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Raw oysters (file photo, not the product involved). Austrid taldrikul, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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