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The Subway restaurant located on Roosevelt Street in Lombard, Illinois that was the site of a major Shigella outbreak has finally reopened. Eleni Demertzis, of the Lombard Spectator, who has followed the Shigella outbreak since it was first announced by DuPage County Health Department on March 5, reports as follows:
The Lombard Subway reopened today after
The Subway restaurant in Lombard, Illinois that is the site of a shigella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people remains closed. In the beginning of March, the restaurant first ceased operations and closed its doors to the public, pending an investigation by the Dupage County Health Department. It is now known that sick employees
The large outbreak of Shigella linked to the Subway restaurant in Lombard, Illinois now counts 116 confirmed (i.e. stool sample positive) cases. As reported by Eleni Demertzis of the Lombard Spectator:
The number continues to grow as more and more people are coming forward to report shigella infections after eating at a Lombard Subway.
Dave
At Marler Clark, we represent foodpoisoning victims from across the country. Many of our foodpoisoning clients are people sickened with bacteria and viruses like E. coli, Salmonella, campylobacter, Hepatitis A, norovirus, and of course Shigella. As has been widely publicized, a major outbreak has occurred at the Subway restaurant on Roosevelt Road in Lombard
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The Subway restaurant located on Roosevelt Road in Lombard, Illinois is at the epicenter of a major shigella outbreak that began in late February and continued into early March. Latest reports estimate the number of confirmed cases in the outbreak at around 50, but there are surely many, many more people who have been sickened in the
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When an outbreak happens at a restaurant, as opposed to an outbreak from a food item sold in grocery stores, the cause is frequently that one of the restaurant’s employees was ill and contaminated food. Often, other employees in the restaurant become sick as well, which can cause the problem of illness amongst customers to