Illnois Subway Salmonella Cases Rise
Daily updates in the Illinois Subway Salmonella outbreak are showing increases in the number of people sickened, from an expanding base of Subway locations.
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On Wednesday the Salmonella Hvittingfoss outbreak stood at 68 confirmed illnesses in 24 counties, up from 48 illnesses in 18 counties. The number of Subway restaurants where victims ate has grown to 30 locations.
The updates are being provided by the Illinois Department of Health, which is investigating the cause of the outbreak with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Law firm Pritzker Olsen has filed an Illinois Subway lawsuit on behalf of a woman sickened by food poisoning after eating a veggie sandwich at the Subway on East Roosevelt Road in Lombard, Illinois. The patient could not eat food for several days and could not work for two weeks.
Our firm is preparing to file additional lawsuits and is accepting cases from individuals who ate at Illinois Subway restaurants and fell ill with Salmonella infection confirmed by a physician. Health care providers in the region are aware of the outbreak and will test for it. Results should be reported to public health agencies.
To connect with a Salmonella lawyer at Pritzker Olsen, contact the firm at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete the contact form on the side of this Web page. We are a leading national practitioner of foodborne illness litigation and have collected millions for victims of food poisoning over the years.
Anyone experiencing gastrointestinal illness after eating at Subway restaurants in Illinois on or after May 10, 2010, should contact their health care provider.
Health investigators are still trying to pinpoint what caused the outbreak, which has sickened Subway customers ranging in age from 2 to 88.
The illnesses have been reported from the following counties: Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Macon, Marshall, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Sangamon, Schuyler, Shelby, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, Winnebago and Will.
Anyone experiencing gastrointestinal illness after eating at Subway restaurants in Illinois on or after May 10, 2010, could be part of this outbreak.
