# Escherichia coli, Shiga toxin-producing outbreak — Multistate, 2013-04
> **Food** · Confirmed · 26 ill / 5 hosp / 0 deaths
## Outbreak
- **NORS ID:** NORS-b4b9b422c41e
- **Date:** 2013-04
- **State:** Multistate
- **Primary mode:** Food
- **Etiology:** Escherichia coli, Shiga toxin-producing (O26)
- **Etiology status:** Confirmed
- **Setting:** Restaurant: Fast-food (drive up service or pay at counter)
## Impact
- **Illnesses:** 26
- **Hospitalizations:** 5
- **Deaths:** 0
## Food vehicle

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

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