E. coli ground beef outbreak 'appears to be over' after sickening 209 people in 10 states
The ground beef E. coli outbreak, which sickened 209 people and led to two recalls, "appears to be over," the CDC announced this week.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued what the government agency called its “final update” Tuesday on the multi-state outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing strain of Escherichia coli O103.
“This outbreak appears to be over. Ill people in this outbreak ate ground beef from many sources,” the CDC said in the update. “No single supplier, distributor, or brand of ground beef was identified.”
The CDC, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and state officials had investigated the outbreak that infected people in 10 states between March and May. Twenty-nine people were hospitalized and two cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure, were reported. No deaths were reported.
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