In the fall of 1996, the very last of the Jack in the Box cases had resolved and the media attention surrounding the outbreak had faded away. For most of the summer and fall I juggled being a lawyer and campaign finance chair for what would become Gary Locke’s successful
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Publisher's Platform: 20 Years After Jack in the Box
On January 13, 1993, the Washington Department of Health (WDOH) was notified that a cluster of children suffering hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) secondary to E. coli infection was being treated in a Seattle-area hospital and that there had been an increase in emergency room visits from patients with bloody diarrhea.
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