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[1] Tonight, new details in the E. coli outbreak rocking fast food giant McDonald's, as the first lawsuit is filed.
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[2] The CDC is confirming that the nearly 50 people infected range in age from 13 to 88, with 10 hospitalized and close to 20 stemming from one Western Colorado county, where officials say one person has died.
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[3] Meanwhile, the CDC, teaming up with the USDA and FDA, is interviewing infected customers and examining beef used in the menu mainstay, the Quarter Pounder. And officials say the likely culprit is raw slivered onions.
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[4] "Food safety is, you know, our top priority at McDonald's." McDonald's president this morning on Today, stressing the company has pulled the quarter pounder and its onions from menus in affected states.
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[5] And fielding a question about where else those onions might be sold. - "We're going to work closely with the CDC and work closely with our supplier. I don't want to speculate where those other products might have gone."
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[6] The FDA declined to name the onion supplier. This comes after the CDC confirmed they were first alerted to cases of E. coli in Colorado nearly two weeks ago, adding they flagged McDonald's a week later.
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[7] Though investigators didn't connect the cases to the quarter pounder until the weekend, prompting it to be pulled.
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[9] "We do expect the number of illnesses to go up, we think that's going to be driven by people who ate quarter pounders at McDonald's before they took these actions."
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[10] Customers are watching what happens next. - "I'm very frustrated because my kid is like McDonald's."
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[11] Experts say McDonald's has a long road ahead, but note that brands have bounced back from crises like these by prioritizing food safety and public transparency.