CNN International reports, “The toll of the nationwide E. coli outbreak linked to tainted cookie dough has continued to mount, federal health authorities said Tuesday.” So far, the CDC said, “Seventy-two people infected with a strain of E. coli O157:H7 with a particular DNA fingerprint have been reported from 30 states,” and 51 “have been confirmed as having the outbreak strain; confirmation was pending on the others.”
In the Wall Street Journal Health Blog, Shirley Wang writes, “This is the same plant that refused to give FDA inspectors access to certain records in the past.” Also it is “still a mystery” how the E. coli “ended up in the product.” Normally, “the concern with eating raw cookie dough usually is…salmonella since it can be found in raw eggs.”
From the American Association for Justice news release.
