A Late-Night Update of the Taco Bell E. coli Outbreak

Posted on December 6, 2006 by PritzkerLaw
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Less than an hour after entering the last post updating the E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell restaurants, another update needed to be written. Here is the latest (late-night) news.

The E. coli outbreak may also involve Taco Bell restaurants in Connecticut. According to health officials, several people in Connecticut may have E. coli infections linked to Taco Bell. Tests are being done to determine if the people have E. coli and if their strain of E. coli is the same as those who have contracted E. coli in the three other states involved in this outbreak, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

Health investigators are still tracing the source of the ever-widening outbreak. Their investigations have led to a distribution center in Burlington Township, New Jersey, that, according to a story in the New York Times, “delivers food to more than 1,100 Taco Bell restaurants and other fast food outlets in the Northeast.” 

Although the outbreak has sickened mostly children, adults have also been hospitalized, including one adult who has been hospitalized for two weeks after eating at a Taco Bell in Seaford, New York.


Source: Depalma, Anthony and Martin, Andrew, Taco Bell distribution center is scrutinized as more E. coli cases emerge, New York Times, December 6, 2006
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