ollowing the recent outbreak of the E. coli bacteria, fast food chain Taco Bell announced will no longer serve green onions at its 5,800 restaurants nationwide.

Taco Bell said it made the decision after samples of green onions from its restaurants were found to contain traces of the bacteria, which caused dozens of patrons to fall ill and forced the chain to temporarily close nine of its restaurants

According to a top New Jersey health official, "a serious outbreak" of E.coli sickness seems to have passed in the state. At least 39 people fell ill, two of them critically, in New Jersey and Long Island after eating at Taco Bell restaurants.

An AP report quotes Health and Senior Services Commissioner Fred M. Jacobs as saying on Monday, "There has not been an outbreak since Nov. 29, so I think that whatever happened went through already

An E. coli outbreak which has left almost two dozen people sick, two of them seriously, has been linked to three Taco Bell restaurants in New Jersey.

Health investigators say the patrons ate at the Taco Bells between November 17th and 28th, yet David Papi, director of health for Middlesex County says they have yet to "find the food they all had in common

A salmonella outbreak that left 183 people in 21 states and Canada sick was likely caused by fresh tomatoes served in restaurants, federal health officials said Friday.

The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that the outbreak had come to an end and that fresh tomatoes were no longer a danger

Wild pigs are suspected to have caused the deadly spread of bacteria onto a California spinach field that killed three people and caused more than 200 others to get sick. State and federal investigators had found boar trampled fences in the ranch.

Tested samples from the wild pig, stream water and cattle on the ranch, have registered positive for the strain of E. coli that caused the outbreak