E. Coli Outbreak

Recently in my News Writing lecture we had a guest speaker from the NY Times who told us about a story they had written about an E. Coli contamination and how a young women had become paralyzed from bad ground beef. While E. Coli outbreaks happen from time to time, I've never thought much about any programs that may arise from having a hamburger. However, once again, there has been an E. Coli outbreak in ground beef that has left 2 dead and 28 sick, to date. While the contaminated meat was only distributed in 8 states, it is possible that the contaminated meat was sold in potentially any state, because stores distribute products among themselves.

If you have purchased ground beef from the following stores, your beef could potentially be contaminated: Trader Joe's, Price Chopper, Lancaster and Wild Harvest, Shaw's, B.J.'s, Ford Brothers, and Giant Food Stores.

For more information on the subject and on recalls visit CNN.