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CDC Warning: If You Have Chopped Romaine Lettuce, Toss It — Then Clean Your Fridge

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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration warned consumers on Friday that chopped romaine lettuce — unless you can confirm it is NOT from around Yuma, AZ — should just be thrown out because of a E. coli  outbreak that could make you sick. Even if you’ve eaten some of it already and aren’t sick. The warning is nationwide, although the CDC has received reports from people getting sick in only 11 states — including Connecticut. Twenty-two have been hospitalized, “including three people who have developed a type of kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome,” the federal agency said.