Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell pull onions from some eateries

Amid a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders, Burger King and Yum Brands are pulling caller onions from immoderate of their ain locations.

Yum is yanking nan topping from immoderate KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell locations "out of an abundance of caution," Yum said Thursday successful a connection to CBS News. Yum did not specify nan locations impacted. "We will proceed pursuing supplier and regulatory guidance to guarantee nan ongoing information and value of our food," a spokesperson for Yum said.

Burger King said it has asked nan 5% of its locations that received onions from a Taylor Farms Colorado installation to dispose of them 2 days ago. "We are successful nan process of restocking them from different facilities," according to a spokesperson.

The fast-food concatenation has not heard from wellness authorities and has not received immoderate indications of illness, nan Burger King spokesperson added.

The developments travel 2 days aft nan national wellness officials said an E. coli outbreak apt tied to onions utilized connected McDonald's Quarter Pounders had sickened astatine slightest 49 group successful 10 states, sidesplitting one. McDonald's removed nan merchandise from astir a 5th of its 13,000 U.S. locations arsenic national and authorities wellness officials activity to corroborate nan root of nan bacteria. 

As astir of those stricken reported eating McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers, investigators are moving to fig retired if slivered onions aliases beef patties are down nan outbreak. 

McDonald's locations successful Colorado, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming and parts of Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico and Oklahoma person temporarily stopped trading Quarter Pounders. 

McDonald's identified California-based nutrient elephantine Taylor Farms arsenic nan supplier for nan sliced onions nan institution removed.

Taylor Farms told CBS News Colorado Wednesday nighttime it conducted tests connected "raw and vanished products" and "found nary traces of E. coli."

Still, Taylor Farms Colorado removed yellowish onions from nan marketplace produced retired of its Colorado facility, it said. 

Most of those stricken successful nan outbreak unrecorded successful Colorado and Nebraska, pinch 26 sickened successful nan erstwhile and 9 stricken successful nan latter, according to nan U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of nan 26 who became sick successful Colorado, 1 older big died, nan CDC said. Health officials successful Utah and Wyoming each reported 4 illnesses. Other states reporting illnesses see Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oregon and Wisconsin.  

At slightest 10 group person been hospitalized, including a kid pinch hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a superior information that tin origin kidney failure, according to nan CDC.  The illnesses began astatine nan extremity of September, and nan astir caller incident occurred October 11. 

It typically takes 3 to 4 weeks to find if a sick personification is portion of an outbreak. Those infected pinch nan toxin-producing E. coli acquisition terrible tummy cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, and astir retrieve without curen aft 5 to 7 days.