Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Jimmy John's announced it temporarily stopped selling sprouts at all of its sandwich shops after a salmonella outbreak was linked to restaurants in Illinois and Wisconsin.
The company, based in Champaign, Ill., said Friday it won't serve the sprouts out of caution. Two Illinois residents became ill on Dec. 20 and 26, the state's Department of Public Health said in a release Friday. And the Wisconsin Department of Health on Friday identified five people infected by the strain.