Ecoli outbreak caution extends to all types of romaine lettuce

The CDC said Friday which Fresh data about the diseases in Alaska led them to extend a caution beyond chopped romaine to involve any type of romaine lettuce, including whole heads & hearts of romaine. Romaine lettuce is sometimes packed in the field & shipped directly to restaurants or grocery stores. The different ways which romaine lettuce is harvested can make identifying the specific origin of contamination further difficult, Marler said. Health officials are working to set "the reason this strain is causing a higher percentage of hospitalizations," the notice said. Read further |Thousands of pounds of prepackaged salad mixes probably have been tainted by Ecoli, officials sayE. coli outbreak spreads as source of tainted lettuce remembers mysteryA Chipotle restaurant is closed after another foodborne disease outbreak

further diseases announced in Ecoli outbreak related to romaine lettuce

(CNN) The number of people hospitalized because of a multistate Ecoli outbreak related to chopped romaine lettuce continues to grow, the America CDC said. About 53 people have been announced sickened in 16 states ever ever March 13, the CDC said. 5 of them developed a type of kidney failure associated by an Ecoli disease called hemolytic uremic syndrome, that could be life-threatening. The higher number of Ecoli statuses have been in Pennsylvania, Idaho, N.J. & Montana. The outbreak has too reached consumers in Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, N.Y., Ohio, Virginia & Washington.

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