E. coli in Wisconsin: Bagged Spinach
Wisconsin health officials have confirmed 20 cases of E. coli linked to fresh, bagged spinach. Tragically, one person has died. The FDA issued a warning advising consumers in Wisconsin and throughout the country not to eat fresh, bagged spinach. According to WSIN News Channel 12 (Milwaukee):
The city of Cudahy Health Department officials said they received an e-mail a week ago from the state warning them about the E. coli cases.
"They were requesting that physicians, when they see their patients and they are presenting symptoms of potentially some sort of intestinal type of disease, that they pay attention, that it could be potentially E. coli," said Carol Wantuch of the Cudahy Health Department.The people in Milwaukee County, as well in most of the other counties, were infected within the same period, about two to three weeks ago, according to health officials.
Manitowoc County has some of their test results are back, and health officials told 12 News reporter Kai Reed that they have found four different strains of E. coli.
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