The nation’s largest egg seller and distributor, Cal-Maine Foods, has added about 800,000 dozen eggs to the nationwide egg recall for a Salmonella outbreak.

Almost 2,000 illnesses have been reported related to the Salmonella strain which triggered the nationwide recall.

“Cal-Maine has been actively monitoring this situation, and as soon as we learned of the expanded recall, we immediately began notifying the affected customers,” said Cal-Maine President Dolph Baker.

Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections, endocarditis, or arthritis.