3 new cases of E. coli infection are reported
Three new cases of E. coli bacterial infection associated with a local restaurant have been uncovered, bringing the total to 10, Orange County health officials said Thursday.
As in the earlier cases, the recently identified victims -- two under 18 and one over 50 -- all ate at the Foothill Ranch Souplantation on Towne Center Drive in Lake Forest on March 23 or 24, said Howard Sutter, a spokesman for the Orange County Health Care Agency.
None of the three was hospitalized, he said, and the source of the contamination has yet to be determined.
A 12-year-old girl believed to have been infected with E. coli at the same time remained hospitalized at Children’s Hospital of Orange County in Orange, where she was “doing well and responding to treatment,” said Dr. Paul Lubinsky, her treating physician.
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