Moreover, 8 players on the Boston College Basketball team confirmed to have E.coli just moments after Boston College’s university medical staff sent out a campus-wide email notifying students and faculty that there were numerous people on campus that had become sick from the Chipotle restaurant in Cleveland Circle.
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“There are no cases of E. coli connected to Chipotle in Oklahoma”.
Chipotle told The Independent it believes the Boston illnesses are unrelated to the E. coli cases and are an instance of norovirus, a form of viral gastroenteritis.
“Right now, we don’t have any indication that there are any issues with the Chipotle’s here”, Anderson said, though she added that the food chain is still investigating exactly what caused the students to fall ill. An employee also worked while showing signs of illness, prompting the closure amid the outbreak.
“The pattern here looks like norovirus isolated to one restaurant”, Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold said. Public health officials closed the restaurant pending the investigation. An employee of the restaurant reported being sick last week, but it was not known if that illness is in any way related to the customer outbreak.
Credit: Lakewood Mag.”All 80 students have confirmed that they ate at the Chipotle Restaurant in Cleveland Circle during the weekend”, Boston College said in a statement.
Common symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Each year, norovirus causes 19 to 21 million illnesses. In spite of the spread, the health officials have not been able to identify the exact ingredient that is causing the trouble.
As per the statistics available with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, so far, 52 people in across nine states have been affected by the infection.
A few weeks later, dozens were sickened by Salmonella after eating at Chipotle restaurants in the Minneapolis area.
According to BPHD, the students’ norovirus symptoms are not consistent with those that typically accompany E. coli.
Since the original E. coli incident, Chipotle’s stock shares have fallen at least eight percent.
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Since then, Chipotle said it has “taken aggressive steps” in response, such as setting stricter health standards for its produce suppliers, stepping away from its promise to buy food locally and testing the produce.
