{"id":694846,"date":"2010-03-18T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003421"},"modified":"2010-03-18T04:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T08:46:20","slug":"chicago-area-subway-now-being-blamed-for-78-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/694846","title":{"rendered":"Chicago-Area Subway Now Being Blamed For 78 Illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/subwayeatfresh-thumb-240x160-38309.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we wrote about a Chicago-area Subway that was the target of lawsuits <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/lawsuits-accuse-illinois-subway-of-selling-contaminated-sandwiches.html\" >after being tied to 21 separate cases of Shigellosis<\/a>, an infectious disease caused by the food-borne Shigella bacteria. Well, that number has increased, just a little bit, to 78 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Dept. in DuPage County released the news yesterday about the increase in the number of cases stemming from tainted food at the Subway in Lombard, IL.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials say that they know of 11 people who have been hospitalized from the disease. As of yesterday, all but one had been released.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of Shigellosis include diarrhea, vomiting, fever and stomach cramps. These normally begin one to two days after being exposed to the bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>The Lombard restaurant remains closed during the ongoing investigation, though we doubt there are people lining up for its grand reopening.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgntv.com\/news\/wgntv-subway-illnesses-shigella-march17,0,3259980.story\" >Number of cases climb in Subway illnesses<\/a> [WGN]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we wrote about a Chicago-area Subway that was the target of lawsuits after being tied to 21 separate cases of Shigellosis, an infectious disease caused by the food-borne Shigella bacteria. Well, that number has increased, just a little bit, to 78 confirmed cases. The Health Dept. in DuPage County released the news yesterday about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ULc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}