Federal health officials late Friday added Michigan to the list of states reporting cases of E. coli linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders.
Michigan has two cases, including one in metro Detroit, according to an email to the Free Press from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS).
One of the cases, MDHHS says, likely had “out-of-state McDonald’s exposure prior to illness.”
MDHHS also says, it’s their understanding the “implicated product has not been sent to Michigan locations.”
Health officials continue to investigate the outbreak described on Tuesday as “fast-moving.”
Since then, the CDC is now reporting that a total of 75 people have been sickened, 22 people have been hospitalized, and one person has died in Colorado.
That number hospitalized also includes a child with complications of serious kidney problems called hemolytic uremic syndrome or HUS, and one new HUS in an adult.