# Escherichia coli, Shiga toxin-producing outbreak — Multistate, 2005-09
> **Food** · Confirmed · 34 ill / 12 hosp / 0 deaths
## Outbreak
- **NORS ID:** NORS-a78e7bcef8b0
- **Date:** 2005-09
- **State:** Multistate
- **Primary mode:** Food
- **Etiology:** Escherichia coli, Shiga toxin-producing (O157:H7)
- **Etiology status:** Confirmed
- **Setting:** Other
## Impact
- **Illnesses:** 34
- **Hospitalizations:** 12
- **Deaths:** 0
## Food vehicle

- **Food:** lettuce, prepackaged
- **Contaminated ingredient:** —
- **IFSAC category:** Vegetable Row Crops

## Source
- [NORS Dashboard](https://wwwn.cdc.gov/norsdashboard/)
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