Lombard Subway Shigella up to 21 Victims
West Chicago Press is reporting that the Lombard Subway Shigella outbreak has expanded from 12 illnesses to 21 reports of lab-confirmed cases of shigellosis.
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The Subway restaurant, located at 1009 E. Roosevelt Road, has been closed since March 4 as the DuPage County Illinois Health Department investigates the cause of this outbreak.
National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen is accepting cases on behalf of families whose loved ones have been sickened. A free Subway Shigella litigation consultation can be obtained by calling 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or by completing the contact form on the side of this web page.
Our law firm is one of the few in the country practicing extensively in the area of foodborne illness litigation and we have collected millions for victims of food poisoning. Based on what we know about restaurant outbreaks of shigellosis, this particular case of food poisoning was preventable.
Quite often the diarrheal disease Shigella is spread through improper hand-washing by an infected worker -- even for weeks after the worker's own symptoms have subsided.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shigellosis was the third most prevalent of all enteric diseases tracked by CDC's FoodNet Surveillance system. In 2008, the most recent year for which figures are available, there were 3,029 confirmed Shigella infections, or 6.59 per 100,000 population. Salmonella and Campylobacter were numbers 1 and 2, respectively, on the same list.
More than 50 percent of Shigella victims are under age 11.
