A microbiologist points out an isolated E. coli growth on an agar plate at the Washington State Department of Health, Nov. 3, 2015, in Shoreline, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Minnesota health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain brands of alfalfa sprouts that have been tied to an unusual outbreak involving different disease-causing bacteria.
\n\nOfficials say 23 people in Minnesota have become ill with either E. coli or salmonella infections, with two of them hospitalized.
\n\nThree had salmonella, and one of them also had a strain of E. coli bacteria called STEC O168:H8. Seven other people were sickened with a different version of E. coli, called STEC O103:H25. Thirteen more had yet another strain, STEC O26:H11.
\n\nWisconsin investigators have identified another 18 cases of illness tied to alfalfa sprouts, Minnesota officials said.
\n\nThe illnesses are being linked to alfalfa sprouts produced by Everything Sprouts, a Minnesota grower, and sold under the Calco and Everything Sprouts brands to restaurants and grocery stores, Minnesota officials said.
\n\nMinnesota investigators say they are working with Wisconsin and federal health officials to pinpoint the source and scope of contamination.
\n\nFood poisoning outbreaks tend to be defined by one type…
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