Columbus, Ohio-The Health officials in both Michigan and Ohio say that cases of E. coli that have been reported in both states appear to bear similar features to each other.
For these reasons health officials suggest that the same source may be responsible for the infections that are being experienced in both states.
The spokesman for the Ohio Department of health says there is a number of links between cases reported in Lucas County and those that are being reported in sites in Michigan.
The type and different details for the cases that are being found in Columbus county and neighboring counties appear to be genetically identical.
Furthermore the suspected source for contamination is ground beef in nearly all of the current cases in both Michigan and Ohio. Health officials believe that the spike is from different contaminated samples of the same source of ground meat, from a particular supplier.
The particular source has not been tied down but it is know that it comes from ground beef, and that is has been distributed fairly widely in both Michigan and Ohio. A broad recall has not yet been issued, but officials are attempting to isolate what the two state sources have in common.