Worthington, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Health has identified seven more cases of food borne illness linked to contaminated raw milk from the Michael Hartmann dairy farm.
It's the second disease outbreak this year blamed on the southern Minnesota farm. Officials say it's not clear how the second outbreak occurred since there's been an embargo on food from the farm since last summer.
Last spring state health officials linked raw milk and other food products from the Hartmann farm to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 that sickened eight people.
The health department's Kirk Smith said that in the latest round of illnesses, E. coli is not the culprit. He says the new cases were caused by two other sources.
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