E. Coli Outbreak in Vermont Sickens 10, Linked to Restaurants

Department of Health officials offered little specific information on the outbreak, saying only that it had been linked to ground beef served at three Vermont restaurants and most of the people infected lived in Chittenden County. The state first announced the outbreak Friday.

Deputy State Epidemiologist Susan Schoenfeld said that the meat appeared to have been tainted when it arrived at the restaurant and that it came from the same "general source." She would not say what that source was, and said she did not know if the source distributed meat elsewhere in Vermont.