The Oregonian is reporting that seven people who attended the Clackamas County Fair contracted E. coli bacteria.

William Keene, an epidemiologist for the Oregon Public Health Division, said this year’s outbreak is larger than the one from the Clackamas County Fair in 2006, when the bacteria infected four people, sending one to the hospital.

Fair spokeswoman Heather Alexander said that next year, Clackamas County Fair officials plan to make more hand-washing stations available and post more signs urging people to wash their hands.

Somehow that seems too little, too late.