Where People Got Sick: E. coli Outbreak, Organic Carrots, November 2024

Key points

This outbreak is over. These carrots are past their shelf life and are no longer for sale. Even when there are not any active E. coli outbreaks you can still take steps to protect yourself from getting sick from E. coli.

Image of a bag of whole organic carrots.

Where sick people live

This map shows where the 48 people in this E. coli outbreak lived.

This outbreak may not have been limited to the states with known illnesses, and the true number of sick people was likely much higher than the number reported. This is because many people recover without medical care and are not tested for E. coli.