one dead in a McDonald’s and 49 people sick due to bacteria in burgers

Most of those infected are found in Colorado and Nebraska, but ten states in the western United States are affected in total, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

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Ground steak or finger onions

In total, 49 people were infected with the same strain of the bacteria, and ten had to be hospitalized. An elderly person has died in Colorado.

“Everyone there said they ate at McDonald’s before they got sick, and most of them mentioned eating a hamburger” specific, called Quarter Pounder in the United States. The latter could be “temporarily unavailable” in some states, the CDC said.

The precise ingredient involved has not been identified but could be ground steak or onions. These two ingredients have been removed by McDonald’s in the affected states while an investigation is conducted.

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