A report out of Colorado today indicates that as many as 11 residents of a correctional facility may be ill with E coli infections. The report does not make clear whether the strain has been confirmed to be E. coli O157:H7, or a different pathogenic strain of the bacteria:
Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman
Whether its just extremely competent public health officials, or that this particular state just got more of the bad meat than everybody else, Colorado is currently at the epicenter of a national outbreak of antibiotic resistant Salmonella Newport linked to ground beef. To date, at least 21 Coloradans have been sickened in the outbreak, with