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A Georgia woman is suing a major California carrot company connected with E. coli outbreak after she claims she got seriously sick from their vegetables.
Melinda Pratt, a Savannah mother of three, says she bought the Bunny Luv Fresh Organic Carrots on Sept. 30, 2024 from her local Sam’s Club.
After eating the carrots, Pratt says she started suffering from bloody diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting.
In her lawsuit, Pratt said that she thought she could get through her symptoms, but they kept getting worse, and she was eventually hospitalized for three days in October.
“I genuinely thought at some point that I was slowly dying,” Pratt told NBC News.
During her stay in the hospital, Pratt claims she learned she had tested positive for shiga toxin producing E. coli, which Georgia health officials reportedly connected to the carrots.
“Shiga toxin-producing E. coli can be severely dangerous to humans. Any consumer still in possession of …