Coli Outbreak Discovered From Costco Chicken Salad

A message left with Taylor Farms wasn’t immediately returned.

The outbreak made 19 people sick in seven different states.

UPI has a statement from Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University, who commented on the seriousness of this E. Coli outbreak.

Shiga toxin producing strain of E.Coli can even be life threatening. The outbreak affected those who ate the salad between October 6 and November 3. As health departments get more reports of foodborne illness, additional people will be checked for the fingerprint and the case count will likely rise, Tauxe said. Though Costco have other suppliers for vegetables, but according to Wilson, the company might have used the same ingredients from Taylor Farms that went into packages. That recall shows that even fully cooked chicken is vulnerable to bacteria, if workers inadvertently contaminate the cooked birds with juice from raw chickens, Marler said.

Earlier this week, 19 people were reported to be infected by the outbreak, according to the CDC.

If you have Costco chicken salad in your fridge, you may want to check the container. Chipotle closed 43 of their restaurants in OR and Washington for over a week while they tried to trace the cause of the infection, with no success.

Tauxe said both investigations are ongoing and he hopes they will eventually find the exact cause of both outbreaks.

The symptoms occur about three or four days after exposure. Symptoms, which usually appear on the eighth day of E.coli symptoms, include fever, abdominal pain, feeling very exhausted, decreased frequency of urination, small unexplained bruises or bleeding from the nose and mouth, loss of color in cheeks and inside the lower eyelids.