Walmart Issues Lettuce Recall Due To E. Coli Outbreak

Walmart and Sam's Club have issued a chopped romaine lettuce recall warning customers to not eat it due to a possible risk of E. coli infection.

The recall covers 16 states including Louisiana.

According to the CDC:

Consumers anywhere in the United States who have store-bought chopped romaine lettuce at home, including salads and salad mixes containing chopped romaine lettuce, should not eat it and should throw it away, even if some of it was eaten and no one has gotten sick. If you do not know if the lettuce is romaine, do not eat it and throw it away.
Before purchasing romaine lettuce at a grocery store or eating it at a restaurant, confirm with the store or restaurant that it is not chopped romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona growing region. If you cannot confirm the source of the romaine lettuce, do not buy it or eat it.

Nine more hospitalizations have been reported, including two people who developed a type of kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome.

53 cases have been reported so far with 31 of those cases resulting in hospitalization.

How do you know if you have E. coli?

Mayoclinic.org -

Signs and symptoms of E. coli O157:H7 infection typically begin three or four days after exposure to the bacteria, though you may become ill as soon as one day after to more than a week later. Signs and symptoms include: