MINNEAPOLIS – Eight recent cases of E. coli in Minnesota have been linked to hamburgers eaten at restaurants in Hennepin, Ramsey and Olmsted counties.
The Minnesota Department of Health did not specify which restaurants served the burgers, but said it was a “local restaurant chain.”
Seven adults and one child are being treated for the bacterial infection, two of whom are in hospital.
Epidemiologists from the health department and multiple environmental health agencies are working with the restaurants to stop the spread.
Federal health officials are calling it a deadly E. coli outbreak paired with onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers has sickened more than 100 people in 14 states. One Wisconsin resident has been sickened by the outbreak at McDonald’s.
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