Virginia Chipotle Location Shuts Down After Customers Fall Ill

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - A Sterling, Virginia Chipotle restaurant is shut down as several customers have reported symptoms of severe illness after eating there over the weekend, Business Insider reports. The customers' stories and symptoms were reported to the website iwaspoisoned.com Sunday and Monday, claiming bouts with vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, dehydration and more. The website indicates more than a dozen people became ill after eating at the Chipotle location Friday and Saturday.

Business Insider reports Chipotle had notified health officials of the illnesses, as Jim Marsden, Chipotle's executive director of food safety, said the reported symptoms are consistent with Norovirus.

Norovirus in restaurants can stem from an employee who did not wash their hands after going to the bathroom, and is highly contagious. (For free daily news updates straight to your inbox, subscribe to Indianapolis Patch - and don't forget to like Indianapolis Patch on Facebook).

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This isn't the first time the popular restaurant chain has dealt with an illness outbreak, as a 2015 E. coli outbreak spread across Chipotle restaurants in several states, and a Norovirus outbreak at a Boston Chipotle that left around 100 Boston College students ill.

There are several Chipotle locations throughout the Indianapolis area.

More information: businessinsider.com

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