Butte County Public Health is continuing to investigate a California E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak that sickened at least twenty-seven people. The outbreak occurred among attendees of a fundraiser for the Forest Ranch Volunteer Fire Department. The people sickened ranged in age from two years old to eighty years old. Four cases were hospitalized and are now home recovering.
Butte County health officials have microbiological evidence that beef tri-tip served at the fundraiser was the source of the outbreak: cultures taken from leftover meat cooked at the event have grown E. coli 0157:H7 which genetically matches the outbreak E. coli O157:H7. Butte County health officials continue to investigate how the cooked meat was contaminated.
Our law firm is currently representing E. coli victims who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening illness that can cause kidney failure, liver damage, pancreatitis, brain damage and damage to other organs. Attorney Fred Pritzker recently spent two days in an intensive care unit with a family whose loved one had developed HUS and was in a coma. If you would like information regarding E. coli litigation and compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost income and other damages, please contact our law firm: 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free), email our lawyers or submit our online consultation form for a free consultation.
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