Jimmy John's Sprouts Outbreak Update: Illinois and Missouri Hit Hardest
The Salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts and certain Jimmy John's restaurants in Illinois now has 112 reported cases in 18 states and the District of Columbia as follows:
California (1), Colorado (1), Connecticut (1), District of Columbia (1), Georgia (1), Hawaii (1), Iowa (1), Illinois (59), Indiana (10), Kentucky (1), Massachusetts (2), Missouri (22), New York (1), Pennsylvania (3), South Dakota (1), Tennessee (1), Texas (1), Virginia (1), and Wisconsin (3).
Only certain Jimmy John's restaurants in Illinois have been implicated in this outbreak.
From November 1, 2010, through January 4, 2011, CDC received report of 112 cases of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:-.
Among 111 persons for whom information is available, illness onset dates range from November 1 to December 24, 2010. Case-patients range in age from 1 to 75 years-old, with a median age of 28 years-old. Seventy-five patients (or 68%) are female. Among persons with available information, 24% reported being hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. Because the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern associated with this particular Salmonella serotype commonly occurs in the United States, some of the cases identified may not be related to this outbreak.
Our law firm is representing a woman from Illinois who was hospitalized for several days with a Salmonella infection contracted after eating alfalfa sprouts on a Jimmy John's sandwich. She developed a type of reactive arthritis called Reiter's syndrome . To contact our firm about a Jimmy Johns Salmonella lawsuit, call 1-888-377-8900 (TOLL FREE) or submit our free consultation form.
