According to local news channel Komo 4, the Washington State Department of Health announced this morning that five people in Washington state are believed to have been sickened by the E. coli O157:H7-contaminated Nestle cookie dough. Two of those sickened were hospitalized.
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We have been investigating several seemingly unrelated E. coli O157:H7 illnesses that may not be so unrelated. There are 63 confirmed illnesses possibly linked to Nestle’s Toll House Cookies. Before you say, "No way, cookies can’t be contaminated" or "E. coli is just a ground beef problem," realize that if these illnesses are, in fact, linked