E. coli outbreak in Colorado: Nasty strain spreads quickly | News [Video]

Yellow onions from a California company have been identified as the likely culprit in a recent E. coli outbreak that killed a Colorado man, led to dozens of hospitalizations and spurred voluntary recalls by a growing number of businesses that fear they may have received, or distributed, infected produce, according to reporting by The Associated Press.

As health inspectors continue to investigate the cause of the deadly outbreak first reported by those who’d consumed McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burger, the fast food company confirmed to the AP that Taylor Farms, of Salinas, Calif., was the source of onions that led the company to pull its flagship burger — and sliced onions — from the menu in several states, including Colorado.

Taylor Farms has a distribution center in Colorado Springs.

The outbreak hit especially hard in Colorado, which has recorded more than two dozen cases of the virus and the sole death, an elderly resident of Mesa County. Authorities have not …