Four more deaths have been linked to a national food poisoning outbreak blamed on tainted Romaine lettuce. The Four were, one each in Arkansas, and New York and Two in Minnesota. Previously there was one death in California. More than 100 people have become sick from eating the lettuce with more than half being hospitalized. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the First death occurred in March. Many of the new cases were people who became ill two or three weeks ago, when the contaminated lettuce was still being sold. This is the worst outbreak since 2006 when illness traced to spinach killed three and sickened more than 270.
