The Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 is not the same strain that sickened Chipotle customers recently. Five people among the 19 infected have been hospitalized and two will require treatment because they developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (a sort of kidney failure), it has been revealed.
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The CDC and state health officials were investigating and have not yet determined what ingredient in the rotisserie chicken salad made and sold in Costco Wholesale stores could be the source of the outbreak.
Anyone who bought chicken salad from a Costco store in the US on or before November 20, 2015, should not eat it and should throw it away.
The cases are spread across the country, with reports of people who have fallen ill in California, Washington, Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, Utah and Montana. “Some of them can range from mild symptoms- like abdominal pain, diarrhea- to all the way to kidney failure, possible heart failure, and in very rare cases even death”. Nineteen people have reportedly become ill, NBC News reports.
Reportedly, 19 people were ill after an E-coli outbreak at Costco stores. The Mexican food Chain Chipotle voluntary closed down 43 restaurants in Washington and OR after more than 40 people got sick from the illness after eating in one of the restaurants.
“All the evidence that we have points to this chicken salad”, he said.
Bill Marler, a food safety advocate and attorney, said the E.coli O157 strain associated with the chicken salad tends to have a higher number of people develop kidney failure than the six other strains of E.coli.
The retailer removed the chicken salad from its shelves after the CDC notified the company of the issue on Friday.
“Fourteen of 16 people purchased or ate rotisserie chicken salad from Costco in the week before illness started”.
Colorado health officials said all four people reported sick there have recovered. Similar messages from other outbreak states, the CDC and FDA advised consumers to destroy Costco chicken salad purchased between October 18 and November 23.
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The human intestines contain hundreds of E. coli and similar bacteria strains.
