April 2007

The Orange County Health Care Agency’s on-going investigation of reported E. coli O157:H7 cases has identified a restaurant at which all currently known cases have reported eating.

Interviews with each of the seven currently known cases have determined they all ate at the Foothill Ranch restaurant in Lake Forest, California.

The continuing investigation will attempt

A 12-year-old girl remained in intensive care Wednesday after being infected with the E. coli bacteria at a Lake Forest restaurant, hospital and health officials said.

After being diagnosed with the most serious complication of E. coli Wednesday afternoon, the girl was transferred from Children’s Hospital of Orange County at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo

An E. coli outbreak in Orange County has been traced to a restaurant, health officials said Monday.

The seven people who tested positive for the dangerous bacterium dined at the same restaurant in Lake Forest, six of them on March 23 or March 24, said Howard Sutter, spokesman for the county’s Health Care Agency. The

As California spinach producers began harvesting their crops this week, legislators, consumers, and health officials discussed the possibility of another E. coli outbreak while spinach farmers and processors tried to assure the public that they were doing all they could to prevent another outbreak.

According to the Salinas Californian, the industry-designed, government-supervised plan will require