This Fast Food chain is the likely source of a new Norovirus epidemic
So far, 11 customers and employees reported getting sick.
About a dozen people in Aurora, Colo. Gastrointestinal symptoms similar to those caused by Norovirus after eating in a local Chipotle restaurant, health officials confirmed.
According toFood security newsShortly after eating the CORNERSTAR quick chain location of 6710 s, up to five high school students and six other people from the region have come down with symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, pain Abdominal, a low-grade fever, and body pain.
Kristi Ryan clienttold a local television channel That his family fell ill in the 36 hours after eating three burritos, a Burrito bowl and a sweet little taco of the Chipotle restaurant. The symptoms were particularly serious for its eight-year-old daughter who was admitted to urgent care because of dehydration.
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Ryan contacted the location of the chain as well as the head office in California, but the channel did not provide anyone who could speak to the family and simplify it to direct it to its website. She said she wants someone from Chipotle assumes responsibility for her family's food poisoning.
Meanwhile, the health authorities of the State and the Region have confirmed that they investigate the location of Chipotle near Denver as a potential culprit of the food-designed disease epidemic, which they. said corresponding to Norovirus. The Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CPHE) and the local Tri-Countori County Health department are involved in the survey.
"The survey is in progress and, at the moment, the cause of the disease has not been identified," said the CDPHE in adeclaration. "Symptoms seem to be compatible with viral gastroenteritis, often caused by Norovirus. So far, CdPhe has identified a total of 8 sick and employees. Public health officials work closely with the restaurant, which has implemented disease control measures. "
This is not the first time that Chipotle is inquiry to make clients sick. The chain in grapping with a series of food security issues in 2015, whendozens of their locations across the Midwest have been identified as sources of an Epidemic of E. coli. At the end of the year, the chain was blamed for hundreds of candidating people fromFive separate epidemics of E.Coli, Salmonella and Norovirus across the country.
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