Marysa Wolfe ate a peanut butter sandwich every day after school. The 10-year-old Newburgh girl had been sick for days, but her parents did not know why.
Then, after seeing a a recall on batch of Peter Pan brand peanut butter and certain batches of Wal-Mart's Great Value house brand, Marysa's mother, Linda, made the connection.
"I was scared, that was the first thing I did, I was scared," Linda told television station WFIE.
Linda then got on the phone with her husband, Eric, and told him the news. For two weeks, Marysa had been eating peanut butter contaminated with salmonella poisoning.
"I said 'Marysa's being poisoned, she's being poisoned,'" said Linda. "He's like 'calm down, calm down, what's going on?' I said there's a recall for the peanut butter, that's what doing it, that's what's doing it, because she'd been sick a week and we couldn't figure out what was wrong with her."
Marysa started feeling ill after having a peanut butter sandwich from a jar of Wal-Mart's Great Value house brand. She kept eating the peanut butter even after she got sick.
"I had really severe cramps down here and it was just really scary," said Marysa. "My stomach was really hurting all the time and it was mostly after I ate it would really hurt."
That continued until the national recall on Feb. 15. That's when Marysa felt her very worst and when Linda put everything together.
"I had to call the doctor again and... tell him this is salmonella, this is salmonella, I really think this is what it is," said Linda.
Marysa, while sick, had eaten the contaminated peanut butter eight days in a row, poisoning herself each day. Now she's feeling much better, and swears she'll never have peanut butter again. Now she'll go for a different snack after school.
"Pizza rolls I guess, that's what I like," she laughed.
Indiana health officials have confirmed 13 cases of salmonella outbreak associated with the contaminated peanut butter. But this is the first official case in the Tri-State. Salmonella is especially dangerous for the very young, the very old, pregnant women and those who have problems with their immune systems.
If you have Peter Pan or Great Value peanut butter with a product code that begins with "2111" at home, throw it out. But save the lid to get a refund. Send it to: ConAgra Foods, P.O. Box 3768, Omaha, NE 68103. The phone number is 1-866-344-6970.
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