McDonald’s Quarter Pounders will temporarily be unavailable in some states across the US due to a deadly outbreak of E coli food poisoning.
On Tuesday (October 22), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a food safety alert regarding an E coli outbreak linked to one of the fast food chain’s most popular burgers. There are currently 49 recorded cases of E coli across 10 different states: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
The death was reported in an older person in Colorado, while one child has been hospitalized with severe kidney complications, the CDC reported. It is not yet known which specific ingredient in the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder is contaminated…