CHARLOTTE, N.C. — UPDATE: Health department officials said there are four additional cases Saturday in the E. coli outbreak. There are now 20 cases.
Fourteen are children and six are adults, according to a news release from the Division of Public Health of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
In Lincoln County, the total has raised to five, up from three. In Cleveland County, there are nine, which is up from seven. Five are in Gaston County and one in York County.
Six children are hospitalized.
A toddler linked to the E. coli outbreak died Friday, according to his family. Gage Lefevers was one of 16 people linked to the outbreak at the Cleveland County Fair.
The number of people sick from E. coli jumped on Friday from 13 to 16, according to health officials. All are connected to last week's fair.