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Originally Posted by tinav  Yes it is confusing. ...I go into a supermarket and they tell me their Romaine is safe.....I know we have been hearing mostly about deaths in the west but still makes me leary since only Saturday they announced 4 new deaths... |
Unclear to me that reports to which Taylor refers are current.
The FDA and CDC issued updated advisories at the time the most recent deaths were reported. Earlier I referenced FDA.gov article dated 1 June 2018. CDC report of the same date is titled, "
Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Romaine Lettuce." Quoting below from that report, emphasis added,
It takes two to three weeks between when a person becomes ill with E. coli and when the illness is reported to CDC. Most of the people who recently became ill ate romaine lettuce when lettuce from the Yuma growing region was likely still available in stores, restaurants, or in peoples’ homes. Some people who became sick did not report eating romaine lettuce, but had close contact with someone else who got sick from eating romaine lettuce.