An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old ...

Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves as fast as swine flu. Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, ...

An E. coli outbreak in Arizona has been linked to the state fair's petting zoo, sickening dozens of children. State health officials did not publicly identify the fair as the source, citing a policy ...

About 167,000 pounds of ground beef products have been recalled nationwide over contamination concerns. Wolverine Packing Co., a meat distributor based in Detroit, Michigan, has recalled some of its ...

Latvian health officials have completed their investigation into an outbreak and general rise in E. coli which led to almost 80 sick people. The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) said ...

A new study finds that two subtypes of pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) produce five to 16 times more protective capsular 'slime' when Enterococcus faecalis (EF) is present. The finding could ...

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At least four children who were hospitalized touched a pig at the petting zoo before getting sick. The petting zoo lacked hand-washing stations, offering only hand sanitizer, which does not kill E.

Jason Palmer, a natural resource biologist with the Iowa DNR, kneels next to a water pump at Big Creek beach in central Iowa. The pump siphons water from the knee-deep zone of the swimming area ...

Mountain West Food Group LLC, a Heyburn, ID, establishment, is recalling 2,855 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O26, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection ...

Packages of ground beef that were distributed in six states are being recalled for concerns of E. coli contamination. Mountain West Food Group recalled about 2,850 pounds of raw ground beef sold under ...