A man in Colorado has died after contracting E. coli from a McDonald’s burger, health officials announced.
The CDC said Tuesday that 49 people in 10 states have been sickened by the same strain of E. coli, a deadly bacteria that affects nearly 100,000 Americans a year.
All affected patients had eaten at McDonald’s before becoming ill, specifically reporting that they had ordered the chain’s popular Quarter Pounder.
The specific contaminated ingredient has not yet been identified, but investigators are focusing on the sliced onions and beef patty, which were removed from stores in the affected states.
A child has also been hospitalized with haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), an infection that leads to kidney damage in up to one in seven E coli patients.
The CDC announced that 49 people in 10 states became sick with E coli after eating at McDonald’s in 10 states. Most ate a Quarter Pounder (pictured here)
No additional details have been released about the Colorado man or child.
