Lombard Subway Shigella Outbreak Has Sickened More than 50 in Illinois
The Subway Shigella outbreak in Lombard, Illinois, has sickened at least 50 people in a case of food poisoning that most likely was caused by an infected food handler.
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The DuPage County Department of Health and the Illinois Department of Public Health are investigating the Subway outbreak and DuPage spokesman David Hass provided the latest estimate of victims Friday to the Chicago Breaking News Center. He has said that at least 10 people have been hospitalized.
National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen is representing victims of this outbreak and is preparing to file a Lombard Subway Shigella lawsuit in a few days. Firm president and founder Fred Pritzker has called on Subway to immediately pay all medical costs, lost wages and other direct expenses of the victims.
Pritzker Olsen is one of the few law firms in the country practicing extensively in the area of foodborne illness and has collected millions for victims of food poisoning.
If you or a loved one has suffered severe gastrointestinal illness after eating at the Lombard Subway restaurant at 1009 E. Roosevelt Road before health officials closed it March 4, contact Pritzker Olsen at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete the contact form on the side of this Web page.
If you believe you are a victim, it is critically important that your doctor runs the appropriate lab studies to confirm the presence of Shigella. We make sure public health officials are notified of individual cases because we want them to document the problem and address it.
Shigellosis is highly contagious and capable of causing life-threatening illness, but it also is preventable with appropriate hygiene. The bacteria leave the body through the stool of an infected person and enter another person when feces-contaminated hands, food, or objects are placed in the mouth.
Very little of the organism is needed to become infected and the infected food handler can spread the bacteria as long as Shigella remains in the person's stools. That can last for a week or two after symptoms stop, so careful handwashing is important.
