“My husband ate at this restaurant on Friday 10/16/2015 and was admitted to the ICU with a bacterial infection from food poisioning [sic],” Kari F. wrote on the Mariscos San Juan Yelp page on Oct. 19. “It was a very scary experience for all. I hope that others affected are healing and doing ok. My heart goes out to you all.” The outbreak of Shigella linked to the seafood restaurant in downtown San Jose, CA, has sickened at least 182 people so far and is reminding people of the power of social media when it comes to tracking foodborne illness. In the past few years, jurisdictions across the country have begun publishing health inspection scores on Yelp using a standardized scoring system called LIVES, or Local Inspector Value Entry Specification. San Francisco was the first to take part in 2013 and, since then, eight other municipalities in California, Kentucky, North Carolina, Illinois and Colorado have joined in. And Socrata, a tech company that’s working to make government data more easily accessible, will soon be launching LIVES in 50 counties of one as-yet-unnamed state and in all 350 jurisdictions under the Food Standards Agency’s regulation in the U.K. According to research conducted by Yelp over the past couple of years, restaurants told that their scores were displayed on the website took more steps to improve their future inspection scores.