National Cyclospora Outbreak Linked to Iceberg Lettuce Prompts Boone Restaurants to Pull Salads; 1,600+ Sickened Nationwide

Two Boone restaurants, Blue Ridge Diner and Makoto's Japanese Steak House & Sushi Bar, removed iceberg lettuce from their menus following notification from food suppliers about contamination linked to a national Cyclospora outbreak. The outbreak has sickened more than 1,600 people nationwide.

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