The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday that dozens more people have been infected due to an E. coli outbreak that mainly sickened customers eating sandwiches with romaine lettuce at Wendy’s restaurants.
In an Aug. 25 press release, the health agency said 52 of the 62 people—or 84 percent—it interviewed reported to have eaten the sandwiches at Wendy’s in the week before they fell ill.
A total of 84 people from four U.S. states—Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania—have been sickened due to the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7, an increase of 47 people since the CDC’s previous update last week….