Noir Nation; The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued an update regarding the deadly E. Coli outbreak currently sweeping the country as nearly 75 McDonald’s customers have now fallen ill!
According to AP News, the outbreak connected to McDonald’s signature Quarter Pounder has expanded to thirteen states. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state that twenty-two people have been hospitalized. Two have developed a dangerous kidney disease complication and one person has since died. As we previously reported only ten people had originally been hospitalized.
Federal officials have confirmed that at this time there has been no determined source of the outbreak. However, investigators are currently concentrated on slivered onions used on the Quarter Poundse burgers as well as the beef patties.
Sources state as of October 24th Colorado, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregan, Wisconsin, Washington, Michigan and Colorado have all been listed as states affected.
Colorado has reported a total of 26 people infected.
Reports read that at least 13 people were sickened in Montana, 11 in Nebraska, 5 each in New Mexico and Utah, 4 each in Missouri and Wyoming, two in Michigan and one each in Iowa, Kansas, Oregon, Wisconsin and Washington,
The Center of Disease Control and Prevention states that the risk to the public is relatively low at this point as McDonald’s has since stopped the production and sales of their Quarter Pounder burgers.
“We have made the decision to stop sourcing onions from Taylor Farms’ Colorado Springs facility indefinitely,” McDonald’s said in a statement released on Friday.
In response to the deadly outbreak, Taylor Farms has moved to recall yellow onions sent to their consumers from their Colorado facility as they actively work with the CDC and the FDA.
“It saddens us to see the illnesses and affected individuals and families.”
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