This outbreak appears to be over. Collaborative investigative efforts of state, local, and federal public health and regulatory officials indicate that alfalfa sprouts produced by Jack & The Green Sprouts of River Falls, Wisconsin were the likely source of this outbreak.
Eleven people infected with the outbreak strain of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 (STEC O157) were reported from two states: Minnesota (8) and Wisconsin (3).
Two ill people were hospitalized. No one developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure, and no deaths were reported.On February 24, 2016, the Minnesota Department of Health issued a press release warning consumers not to eat alfalfa sprouts produced by Jack & The Green Sprouts.