Seventy-Six People in Sixteen States Are Sick with E. coli or Salmonella Traced to One Lot of Alfalfa Sprout Seed. Seventy-Two of Them Were Already Sick Before the Public Was Told Anything, and the Last Got Sick Sixteen Days After the Recall. That Is Why I Am Asking FDA to Put the Warning on the Package.

Seventy-Six People in Sixteen States Are Sick with E. coli or Salmonella Traced to One Lot of Alfalfa Sprout Seed. Seventy-Two of Them Were Already Sick Before the Public Was Told Anything, and the Last Got Sick Sixteen Days After the Recall. That Is Why I Am Asking FDA to Put the Warning on the Package.

CDC updated its outbreak page on October 1. Seventy-six people in sixteen states are infected with one of three strains of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (O26:H11, O103:H25 and O168:H8) or with Salmonella Agona, traced to alfalfa sprouts grown from...