- Case Count: 197
- States: 35
- Deaths: 5
- Hospitalizations: 89
- Recall: No
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, i.e. a secondary infection.
These illnesses stretch into May, as the epi curve reflects the last date of onset being May 12.
FDA's Dr. Gottlieb and Dr. Ostroff provided a blog post with more detail about the outbreak, including a redacted traceback diagram.