Coli found in Costco chicken salad

However, Alicia Cronquist, an epidemiologist at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said, “We are working with Costco”. The CDC says the cases date back to October 6 and recommends throwing out the chicken salad if purchased on or before November 20-regardless if customers have shown symptoms.

The Wall Street Journal reports federal investigators are examining whether the celery and onion mix in the rotisserie chicken salad was the source of the E. coli outbreak.

The human intestines contain hundreds of E. coli and similar bacteria strains. PulseNet manages a national database of these DNA fingerprints to identify possible outbreaks.

The majority of illnesses have been reported from states in the western United States. Children under the age of 5, older adults and people with weakened immune systems are at highest risk from E. coli illness. Fifty-seven percent of ill people are female.

The outbreak of E. Coli bacteria is mostly occurring in the west. As of writing, there are already five people hospitalized and two have developed a sort of kidney failure – one of the severe complications from infection with this specific strain of E. Coli bacteria.

McCullough says no deaths have been reported. This chart is called an epidemic curve or epi curve. This takes an average of 2 to 3 weeks. This is not related to the outbreak that happened recently that forced certain branches of Chipotle to close in some states in the Northwest, the news outlet added.

Dr. Robert Tauxe of the CDC commended state health officials for quickly discovering the outbreak and helping find the links across seven states. However the Utah Department of Health states in a media release that there is a “strong association between reported illness and eating the salad”.

Wilson said chickens have not been connected to the outbreak, and no other Costco products use the same other ingredients found in the chicken salad.

“Even if some of the rotisserie chicken salad has been eaten and no one has gotten sick, throw the rest of the product away”, the agency continued.