Downstate Counties Probe Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Subway Restaurants
Subway customers in downstate Illinois who recently became sick within seven days after eating at one of the restaurants are being asked to contact your county health department or Illinois State Department of Health if you or your doctor haven't already done so.
The investigators are seeking information to help pinpoint the cause of a Salmonella outbreak associated with Subway restaurants in 14 counties. The Subway outbreak has sickened at least 34 people, including 14 who have been hospitalized.
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The Subway Salmonella outbreak in downstate Illinois involves a rare strain of the bacteria known as Hvittingfoss.
Dianna Heyer, the Macon County Health Department's nursing services coordinator, told a local newspaper that in Macon County there have been three laboratory-confirmed cases.
WIFR.com reported that Ogle County has at least two reported cases. Candy Johnstone told the station that she is one of those victims.
Jonstone told WIFR that she ate a veggie sub at a Rochelle Subway about three weeks ago. That's when illnesses were first starting to be reported.
"I was either sleeping or in the bathroom. It was just terrible pains, and by Sunday I realized it was worse than a flu or common cold or something so I went to the emergency room," Johnstone said.
Food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen is accepting cases from the Salmonella Subway outbreak in Illinois. Call a Salmonella lawyer at the firm at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete the contact form on the side of this Web page. We will respond with a free case consultation.
Already this year our firm has filed an Illinois lawsuit against Subway on behalf of a woman who suffered food poisoning after eating at the Subway on East Roosevelt Road in Lombard. That outbreak was separate from the current one.
In the Lombard Subway case, our lawsuit states that the client could not eat food for several days and missed two weeks of work.
Consequences of Salmonella infection vary, but it is not something to take lightly. In some cases, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing arterial infections and reactive arthritis, or Reiter's Syndrome, which can lead to heart problems.
This form of food poisoning is most threatening to young children, the elderly and other who have weakened or under-developed immune systems.
