E. coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders in Multiple States
Some are suspicious of the timing, though reports indicate 49 people in 10 states have been sickened.
McDonald’s has been the center of media attention this week after President Donald Trump did a brief shift at a franchise that generated many iconic moments and hundreds of liberal head explosions.
Now, suddenly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders in multiple states.
It’s not yet known which ingredient in the hamburgers is making people sick. Slivered onions and quarter-pound beef patties, both of which are specifically used for Quarter Pounders, are being looked at.
At least 49 people in 10 states have been sickened. One person, an older adult in Colorado, has died.
Ten people have been hospitalized, including a child who developed a kidney disease called hemolytic uremic syndrome.
McDonald’s is working with public health officials, according to the CDC. The fast-food chain has stopped using the slivered onions and quarter-pound beef patties in several states, the CDC said.
Interestingly, the focus is on the slivered onions.
McDonald’s has stopped using the onions as well as quarter-pound beef patties in several states while the investigation continues, the CDC says. According to the agency, the beef patties are used only for the Quarter Pounders, and the slivered onions are used primarily for the Quarter Pounder and not other items.
McDonald’s said in a statement that the initial investigation findings linked the onions to “a single supplier that serves three distribution centers.”
“We are working in close partnership with our suppliers to replenish supply for the Quarter Pounder in the coming weeks (timing will vary by local market),” it said. “In the meantime, all other menu items, including other beef products (including the Cheeseburger, Hamburger, Big Mac, McDouble and the Double Cheeseburger) are unaffected and available.”
The CDC indicates that the investigation is “fast-moving”. I just bet it is.
Meanwhile, McDonald’s stock prices took a hit.
BREAKING 🚨: McDonald’s$MCD plunging in after hours after CDC confirms E. coli outbreak linked to the company’s Quarter Pounders pic.twitter.com/X6neUPpa9w
— Barchart (@Barchart) October 22, 2024
Happily, the plunge was not deep and the decline ended up being slight at the end of the day.
- Current price: $314.69
- Change: -$0.20 (-0.06%)
The symptoms of E. coli are quite unpleasant, but the vast majority of people recover without treatment.
The CDC warns that symptoms of severe E. coli include diarrhea and a fever higher than 102°. Other symptoms include “so much vomiting that you cannot keep liquids down” and signs of dehydration like not urinating much, dry mouth or a dry throat.
Symptoms usually start three to four days after eating a contaminated product, the organization notes. Most people recover without treatment after five days to a week.
Hopefully, the situation will be resolved, the burgers and fries will flow, and the ice cream machines be fixed.
However, some are suspicious of the timing.
A Government agency (the CDC) reports an E. coli outbreak sinking McDonald’s stocks.
Interesting timing. pic.twitter.com/YlCyH7uKZO
— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyMMA) October 22, 2024
Additionally, I find the development disturbing in light of the listeria outbreak Boar’s Head and ready-to-eat meat products.
What exactly has been happening in this country, that we are experiencing food contamination on this scale now?
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It doesn’t say how many E Coli cases are are in a normal day, rather important information.
73K per year which breaks down to an average of about 200 per day.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/4/04-0739_article
Wait for it….new vax for it in a few weeks.
A listeriolysin O Subunit Vaccine is Protective Against Listeria monocytogenes
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7788512/
‘Oops, e.Coli.
It is in the works.
https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/uc-davis-health-launches-new-invasive-e-coli-disease-vaccine-trial/2023/05
McDonald’s serves about 69,000,000 people a day worldwide. 49 sick people comes to about .0000007% of the daily customer base. Not much to get worried about, is there?
Strange timing of this announcement.
I know, let’s blame Trump/sarc
Gates is smiling somewhere.
This is to be expected. You let the orange man make french fries at a franchise for a short period of time and that there’s an E coli breakout. I think the man needs to be taken to trial about this.
/ Must I?
I never eat at McD. I almost never eat at any fast food place. I don’t trust them. I now buy my meat from local ranchers. Having eaten at restaurants in Italy and shopped at Italian supermarkets, I can see how awful American food is. Italy has a food police. EU countries ban food additives which are legal here like yellow dye. Be clear, I am opposed to most of the policies of the EU, but some of their regs make sense.
Mortality statistics indicate we are less healthy than Europeans. My software gives me access to global data, so I can compare death rates at any age. Most likely food is only part of the problem. The third largest cause of deaths in the US is avoidable medical errors.
“ I never eat at McD.”
We can’t be friends.
I’ll have a second quarter pounder with cheese today in your honor.
I had no problem occasionally eating at McD… then the outlet in our working cowboy town posted itself a gun-free zone eight years ago. (We have something like three of these in the entire town, not counting the Post Office and medical buildings, which post everywhere. The other two are Town Hall and Goodwill, and there’s a courtroom in Town Hall.). I haven’t eaten in at McDonald’s since,
All McDonald’s food is poisonous
Let me add that that’s my opinion.
(I don’t want to be sued.)
I do not recall the name of the comedian, but I will never forget the clever insult he made about McDonald’s serving “waxed paper cups of sugared poison.” Never stopped me eating there, but the words go through my mind every time. It has been a very long time since the last time they used waxed paper cups.
This is transparently b*llsh*t.
Seriously, who believes anything that spews from the maw of the federal government today.
More and more, I see the wisdom of unleashing Musk and telling him not to stop until Washington is a ghost town.
“Interestingly, the focus is on the slivered onions.”
In 2003, there was the largest foodborne hepatitis A outbreak at a local Chi Chis. Over 650 people got sick and several died. It was the final nail in Chi Chis coffin and the chain went under very soon after. The cause was green onions.
Cooking the burger patty to the required temp should kill the e coli bugs but since the slivered onions aren’t cooked McDonald’s has to depend on suppliers to maintain adequate protocols to avoid contamination.
As usual, it’s the vegan side of the chamber actually at fault.
Sp is there a connection to the illegals?
This cannot be a coincidence. And just when you think you can’t hate the left any more than you already do…
Story from Breitbart yesterday-
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/22/democrats-target-mcdonalds-for-price-gouging-after-trump-served-customers/
Pretty simple. A warning shot at McDonalds for having dared to host Trump in an event that hurt Harris, and a cautionary tale for others who might dare similar support.
There are 13,562 McDonalds restaurants in the United States as of September 23, 2024.
https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports/McDonalds-USA/
Mere statistics say that in a sample size of 13,000 you are going to have a number of such cases on any given day. The only thing unusual is the way it’s being reported.
Joe the Plumber destruction on a corporate level.
And how many of the employees of those 13,562 restaurants are so-called “People of Color”? I’d bet that there’s a bunch of people that fit that definition.
Leftists are trying to damage a company that employs probably thousands of the very people they claim to be for, simply because Trump showed up at a drive-through.
With their typical knee-jerk reaction to events, they made his point for him.