McDonald’s Quarter Pounder gave me E.coli and put me in the hospital — now I’m suing

Do you want a suit pinch that?

A cheesed-off customer impacted by nan deadly E.coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers is taking supersized ineligible action.

Clarissa DeBock told reporters she didn’t announcement thing incorrect pinch her repast while eating pinch her fiancé astatine their section Golden Arches successful North Platte, Nebraska, past month.

But 5 days later, she began to suffer from abdominal cramps, diarrhea and nausea, pinch her symptoms becoming truthful terrible connected Sept. 25 that she rushed herself to nan hospital.

“I could conscionable show that thing was disconnected by nan cramps, conscionable because they were truthful bad,” she revealed to NBC News. “You get cramps pinch nan flu and stuff, but it was different.”

Tests revealed that she was infected pinch E.coli strain O157:H7 — nan aforesaid 1 connected to nan caller outbreak.

The 33-year-old receptionist astatine a surgical halfway chalks her unwellness up to nan bacterial burger from nan accelerated nutrient giant.

“It’s conscionable scary, I guess, conscionable because you spot them arsenic a accelerated nutrient place. You’re putting your spot successful them to supply safe food,” she said.

In an updated Food Safety Alert from nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arsenic of Oct. 25, location person now been 75 cases of E.coli connected to nan outbreak, 26 of those cases being new. There person besides been 22 reported hospitalizations and 1 decease crossed 13 states.

It’s believed that nan outbreak stemmed from nan earthy onions utilized successful nan 4th pounders from 1 of their suppliers, Taylor Farms — but authorities haven’t ruled retired nan burgers, according to reports.

The institution — arsenic good arsenic different companies specified arsenic Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut — person removed onions from restaurants arsenic officials investigate.

DeBock reportedly revenge suit against McDonald’s connected Thursday, asking for compensation owed to mislaid wages, aesculapian bills, and beingness and affectional suffering.

She’s thought to beryllium nan 2nd personification to writer nan fast-food concatenation successful relationship to nan outbreak — a Colorado man hit her to nan punch earlier this week.

Both plaintiffs are being represented by Ron Simon, managing partner of Ron Simon & Associates, a nutrient information rule firm, who told NBC that he is representing 15 group successful full who opportunity their illnesses are connected to nan outbreak, though only nan 2 suits person been filed.

Simon claimed that 1 customer developed sepsis and was successful nan infirmary for complete a week.

“When you spell to a restaurant, you are trusting that nan edifice did everything they could do to make you safe, but successful this case, McDonald’s breached that trust,” Simon said. “I fishy it’s going to return a agelong clip earlier they get it back.”

The Post has reached retired to McDonald’s and Simon & Associates for further comment.

In nan meantime, McDonald’s pulled their Quarter Pounders astatine astir 20% of its US locations.

Stores successful Colorado, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, and portions of Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, and Oklahoma person temporarily stopped utilizing their existent proviso of slivered onions and beef patties, according to nan CDC.

Joe Erlinger, president of McDonald’s USA, told Today that it’s still safe to eat astatine nan beloved fast-food chain.

“Food information is our apical privilege astatine McDonald’s,” he said. “What’s important coming is that we’ve taken nan action to protect nan American nationalist and beforehand nationalist health.”