An outbreak of E. coli in eight U.S. states has killed one person and sickened dozens of others, prompting federal health officials to warn consumers nationwide not to eat bagged fresh spinach. FoxNews has listed some E. coli facts on their website:
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Of 57 confirmed cases nationally, at least 20 have occurred in Wisconsin, including one death, state and federal officials said. Wisconsin was the first state to identify the particular strain of E. coli involved.
Besides the Wisconsin cases, the outbreak has sickened people in Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Utah and Washington
A 17-year-old girl from Paducah, Kentucky, is among dozens sickened by an E. coli outbreak in several states and is being treated at a Tennessee hospital.
The teen, who couldn’t be identified because of privacy concerns, is a vegetarian who had eaten spinach recently, said Jerry Jones, a spokesman for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in
The Pennsylvania State Health Department have just announced a case of E. coli in Pennsylvania, with a potential link to the nationwide alert about contaminated spinach.
Officials tell CBS 3 that the link falls into the same critical time-frame of the last week of August. During that time, the victim may have eaten fresh spinach
The FDA is urging people to throw out any bagged fresh spinach they have after one death in Wisconsin has resulted from E. coli-tainted spinach.
The outbreak also has sickened 20 others in Wisconsin and 29 people in other states.
In Wisconsin, a spokesman for the state Department of Health and Family Services said
Roundy’s Supermarkets is voluntarily removing all pre-packaged fresh spinach from its grocery store shelves, according to the Associated Press.
Roundy’s stores include Pick ‘n Save, Copps and the Metro Market in Wisconsin. Roundy’s also is taking the spinach out of the Rainbow stores in Minnesota, even though Minnesota isn’t one of the eight states identified
U.S. regulators are telling consumers not to eat bagged spinach at all, even after washing it, as an outbreak of E. coli spreads to a ninth state.
Washing the spinach won’t make it safe because the E. coli bacteria are sticking so tightly. "If you wash it, it is not going to get rid of
According to Health Officials, raw packages of spinach is likely the sources of an E. coli outbreak, killing at least one person and made at least 49 other people sick. Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin, and California have all made reports and are investigating a possible case.
A warning has been
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that an outbreak of E. coli traced to packages of fresh spinach has killed one person and left 49 others sick in nine states, including 10 people in Utah. Those in Utah affected by the bug live in various parts of the state, said Robert Rolfs, the state epidemiologist at
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