Norovirus Eyed In Boston Chipotle Illnesses

“The number of Boston College students who have reported to BC Health Services with GI symptoms has risen to 80 as of noon today”. It temporary closed its Cleveland Circle location, where the students ate, while health officials investigated.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, infected workers cause about 70 percent of reported norovirus outbreaks from contaminated food.

Boston College says all students have been tested for both E. Coli and norovirus, and that results will not be available for at least two days.

Local health inspectors closed the Cleveland Circle location on Monday after it was cited for having a sick employee working with food and failing to keep stored meat at proper temperatures. “If there is a question of illness, we want to make sure the establishment will properly manage it so there will not be a thing”, Boston Inspectional Services Commissioner William Christopher Jr. said.

“The pattern here looks like norovirus isolated to one restaurant”, Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold told Reuters.

This has not been a good few weeks for Chipotle, which recently shuttered over 40 stores due to a widespread E. coli outbreak.

He noted the company has no confirmation.

Boston – Officials from the Boston Public Health Department confirmed that 80 students have become ill with norovirus after eating at a Chipotle restaurant near campus the past week.

The food chain said that no cases of E.coli in Boston have been linked to the company.

Many students at the school feared they were afflicted with E. coli.

Some of the sickened players missed Sunday’s game against UMass Lowell.