date:Jun 29, 2012
on and I.V. treatment, she is not included among the 89 victim case count and likely never will be. That's because of technicalities surrounding the identification of her infection.
The bacterial isolate that confirmed her Salmonella infection was never serotyped, meaning that the specific strain was never identified and Hurtado's infection will never be genetically linked to the strain found in samples of Smiling Hara's tempeh. In short, she's in a sort of classification limbo, neither officia