Restaurant giant McDonald’s could be facing a potential class action due to a Hepatitis outbreak as it seems more people are coming forward with claims. The cause and spread of the outbreak is interesting. The incident occurred in Milan, Illinois and is being attributed to a McDonald’s employee who contracted the virus in June. She returned to work. However, the hospital where she was diagnosed did not notify public health officials on a promptly basis as they were supposed. Moreover, when the matter was reported there was a subsequent delay since an employee was on vacation.

It has been suspected that the infected employee likely did not wash her hands properly after using the washroom and likely had feces on her that in turn ended up on food.

MSN.com reports that a mother and her 14 year old daughter filed a lawsuit today after having eaten at infected McDonald’s alleging to have been sickened by Hepatitis A.