San Jose restaurant, Marisco’s San Juan 3, that was linked to a massive outbreak of Shigella that sickened nearly 200 people has been given the all-clear to reopen, officials announced Thursday.

The Department of Environmental Health inspected Thursday Marisco’s San Juan 3, a Fourth Street restaurant that was shuttered Oct. 18 after county public health officials began linking an influx of Shigella cases to restaurant patrons.

According to county officials, the restaurant’s owners threw away all food products on site, cleaned and sanitized the restaurant and retrained all employees on how to properly handle food. All but one employee tested negative for Shigella. Those who tested negative are cleared to return to work.

Health officials determined an outbreak of Shigella, a contagious diarrheal illness, was connected to the restaurant at 205 N. Fourth St. that caused 194 people to get sick. Health officials said the exact source of the outbreak may never be identified.

Of the 94 people who have confirmed cases of Shigella, 74 are in Santa Clara County. The remaining cases were found in Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Marin and Merced counties, public health officials stated.

Three San Jose men who ate at the restaurant and came down with Shigella have filed lawsuits in Santa Clara County Superior Court, according to their attorneys at the firms Rains Lucia Stern, PC, in San Francisco, and Marler Clark in Seattle, Washington.

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Anthony joined Marler Clark as an associate attorney in August 2015, after graduating from Seattle University School of Law with honors. During law school, Anthony worked as an in-house legal intern at Weyerhaeuser Company, where he focused in environmental and natural resources law.

Anthony joined Marler Clark as an associate attorney in August 2015, after graduating from Seattle University School of Law with honors. During law school, Anthony worked as an in-house legal intern at Weyerhaeuser Company, where he focused in environmental and natural resources law. He also served as a summer clerk at the firm of Fortier & Mikko, P.C. in Anchorage, Alaska, and served as a legal extern at the King County Superior Court to Judge (now Justice) Mary Yu, of the Washington State Supreme Court. Anthony spent the last year of law school working as a Rule 9 Legal Licensed Intern with Marler Clark, where he worked closely with Bill Marler and Denis Stearns on research projects that covered a variety of complex legal issues, such as the recovery of emotional distress damages in cases involving consumption of recalled food, and the differing legal standards applicable to the certification of class actions under federal and state laws.