Chipotle’s E-Coli Bug Might Be Spreading To Massachusetts

The sickened students include members of the BC basketball team after eating at the Chipotle in Cleveland Circle.

There are nine states reporting the outbreak, and Massachusetts could be the latest on the list.

According to an article in Fortune.com:

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health received more than 20 reports of illness from Boston College students and is working to determine if they are tied to a Chipotle-linked outbreak of E. coli, spokesman Scott Zoback said.

Chipotle said it had temporarily closed it's restaurant in Boston’s Cleveland Circle, where a college spokesman said all the students reported eating, while it works with local health officials to investigate the illnesses.

The first reported cases of the outbreak were on the west coast in Seattle and Portland, Oregon. The chain closed all of it's 43 restaurants in those areas temporarily in October.

Since then, the outbreak has spread to Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, California, Minnesota , New York and Ohio. Folks in those states were ill within the past month of visiting a Chipotle.