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23 Tháng 10, 2024
“If these onions went to other places, you could start to see this thing expand pretty quickly,” Mr. Marler said.
The C.D.C. called the situation “a fast-moving outbreak investigation.” Most people fell ill with the bacterial infection between late September and mid-October, and all of those interviewed by health officials said they had recently eaten at McDonald’s.
Health investigators are also trying to determine whether any contaminated ingredients had been sold by other retailers or grocery stores.
The outbreak has hospitalized 10 people in the Mountain States, including a child who has a complicating illness, according to the C.D.C. One Colorado resident has died.
Symptoms of E. coli infection typically start four days after consuming a contaminated food and include diarrhea and severe stomach cramps. Medical help is required if those symptoms last longer than two days, or if the patient experiences a fever higher than 102 degrees or dehydration.
In severe cases, E. coli may trigger kidney problems, which can be life-threatening.
McDonald’s has been unusually in the news this week. On Sunday, former President Donald Trump staged an event at a closed McDonald’s outside Philadelphia, working a fryer and serving fast food to a selected audience through a drive-through window.
The hope was to cast doubt on Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that a summer college job she had was at a McDonald’s. That recollection has been corroborated by a family friend.
