Dozens sickened at Boston Chipotle

NC_chipotle1208_700x394Boston, Mass. — (WHDH) Boston College said Tuesday the number of students complaining of gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at a Chipotle this weekend has climbed to 80, up from the 30 it reported Monday.

On Tuesday, the Boston Public Health Commission confirmed the presence of norovirus at Chipotle in Cleveland Circle.

The illnesses come as Chipotle’s sales are already being slammed by a multi-state outbreak of E. coli linked to its restaurants. The company said it thinks the Boston College illnesses are an isolated case of norovirus and unrelated to the E. coli cases.

“All of the evidence we have points in that direction,” said Chris Arnold, a Chipotle spokesman.

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