Foothill Ranch Souplantation E. coli
** OUTBREAK UPDATE: Attorney Fred Pritzker is investigation a Shigella outbreak associated with the Souplantation restaurant in Pasadena. Victims of this outbreak ate at the Pasadena Souplantation
Orange county has closed the Foothill Ranch Souplantation in the wake of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 12 people, 3 of whom were hospitalized. According to a story in the Los Angeles Times:
A Lake Forest restaurant linked to an E. coli outbreak was closed Saturday by Orange County health officials after a 12th customer and an employee tested positive for the bacteria. The customer, a juvenile, ate at the Foothill Ranch Souplantation on March 25, said Orange County Health Care Agency spokesman Howard Sutter. Sutter called the new case "a significant development" because the other cases involved customers who ate at the restaurant on March 23 or 24. . . .
Sutter said health officials have not identified the source of the E. coli outbreak. The strain of the bacteria is rare — but not necessarily deadlier — and has not been reported in California, he said. It is different from the strain linked to the spinach grown near Salinas, Calif., that was identified as the cause of an E. coli outbreak last summer that killed three people, including a toddler. . . .
"We can't draw any conclusions from the latest developments. The only thing this tells us is that we have the first reported case [of a customer] outside of March 23 and March 24," Sutter said.
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Source: H.G. Reza, “O.C. shuts restaurant tied to E. coli outbreak,”
