Subway Salmonella Outbreak Update
Illinois health officials have confirmed 71 illnesses in the Subway Salmonella Outbreak involving Subway restaurants in 22 Illinois counties.
According to news reports, 26 people have been hospitalized and there have been no deaths.
The Illinois Department of Public Health encourages anyone experiencing gastrointestinal illness after eating at Subway restaurants in Illinois on or after May 10, to contact their health care provider or local health department.
For answers to legal questions about a possible Subway Salmonella lawsuit, call food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete the contact form on the side of this Web page.. Our firm is currently in direct contact with victims of the outbreak and we have been conducting our own investigaiton, as we do in many outbreaks.
We are presently litigating a food poisoning lawsuit against an Illinois Subway store on behalf of a woman from DuPage County who became quite sick after eating a veggie sandwich from the location on East Roosevelt Road in Lombard, Ill.
Our client couldn't eat for several days and missed two weeks of work. She had a stool-culture confirmed case of foodborne illness.
So far, outbreak victims have reported eating at Subway restaurants located in Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, Dewitt, Fulton, Knox, La Salle, Macon, Marshall, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Sangamon, Schuyler, Shelby, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, Winnebago, and Wil counties.
Salmonella is the most common bacterial cause of foodborne outbreaks in the United States; approximately half of all Salmonella outbreaks occur in restaurant settings.
But that doesn't mean families should take Salmonella infection lightly. The organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems.
Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, Salmonellosis can result in the bacteria getting into the bloodstream and produce arterial infections, endocarditis and reactive arthritis, or Reiter's Syndrome.
