toxin–producing Escherichia coli O157 (O157 STEC) infections cause 73,000 illnesses
annually in the United States, resulting in more than 2,000 hospitalizations and 60 deaths. In
this study, the economic cost of illness due to O157 STEC infections transmitted by food or
other means was estimated based on the CDC estimate of annual cases and newly
available data from the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) of the …