date:Aug 21, 2013
At least 74 people have fallen ill with E. coli O157:H7 after dining at Federicos Mexican Restaurant in Litchfield Park, Ariz., around July 18, according to Maricopa County Public Health spokeswoman Jeanene Fowler.
Of those ill, 23 were or currently are hospitalized. Most of those patients have since been discharged.
Fowler said that a report by the Arizona Republic originally made an erroneous statement that the outbreak began in June, when the first illness onset dates did not occur until Ju