Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge introduces us to one expert who says due to E.coli's incubation period, there may be more cases related to the contaminated Quarter Pounder.
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00:00One expert says there may be more cases related to the McDonald's E. coli outbreak that haven't yet been reported
00:08McDonald's pulled quarter-pounder burgers from their menu after one person died and nearly 50 others got sick
00:14Reuters reports the CDC and the fast-food chain are examining onions and beef patties to determine the outbreak source
00:22University of Guelph food science professor Keith Warner tells Reuters the incubation period for E. coli is
00:29typically 10 days. So the problem is is that
00:32you've got other cases that might be occurring but yet have to be linked to the outbreak and
00:38very typically what happens is that the numbers expand. McDonald's pulled the quarter-pounder from a fifth of the
00:4614,000 US restaurants