NC State Fair blamed for E. coli outbreak
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Something at the State Fair is to blame for dozens of cases of E. coli infection that have swept through central North Carolina, state officials said Monday.
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Maryland state health officials have attributed three cases of E. coli illness to a spinach-borne outbreak of the deadly bacterium and are investigating the death of an 86-year old Hagerstown woman who became ill with E. coli after eating bagged spinach.
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An outbreak of E. coli bacterial infections in central New Jersey has grown to 19 confirmed cases, a health official said Monday.
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Investigators are focusing on three   counties in central California in the search for the source of   an E. coli outbreak linked to fresh spinach that has spread to   23 states and sickened more than 100 people, the U.S. Food and   Drug Administration said on Wednesday.
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The outbreak of E. coli linked to fresh spinach was blamed for another five cases of illness Saturday, raising the number of people sickened to 171, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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The FBI searched two produce companies Wednesday for evidence of a crime in the nationwide E. coli outbreak that killed one person and sickened at least 191 others.
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RALEIGH, NC Nov 4, 2004 - At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E. coli bacteria, and the outbreak might be connected to a petting zoo that was at the State Fair, authorities said.
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Department of Health and Human Services officials say the focus is now on people who visited the State Fair around October 8th and became ill on or after October 15th.
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A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green.
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Federal health officials warned Friday that the number of infections from an outbreak of E. coli continued to climb, with more than 60 people falling ill after eating at Taco Bell restaurants, most in the Northeast.
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An ingredient used in 70 percent of Taco Bell's products, lettuce, probably caused an E.coli outbreak that sickened dozens of people in the U.S. Northeast, food safety officials said on Wednesday.
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MADISON, Wis. -- Two bags of spinach collected from E. coli patients in Wisconsin are linked to the national outbreak of the disease, state health officials said.
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California officials have discovered E. coli in cattle feces on pastures near farms being investigated as possible sources of spinach contaminated with the bacteria, which caused a nationwide outbreak of food poisoning, a state health officer said on Tuesday.
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RALEIGH, NC -- North Carolina public health officials said Friday they are investigating 39 more cases of possible E. coli infection and have ruled out four confirmed cases as part of an outbreak linked to the North Carolina State Fair.
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RALEIGH -- Health investigators on Saturday identified more cases of E. coli in North Carolina, most of them linked to visits to the State Fair in Raleigh last month.
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E. coli is to blame for the outbreak of food-borne illness among dozens of inmates at a county jail, sheriff's officials said.
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A chronology of events in the deadly outbreak of E. coli in the southwestern Ontario farming town of Walkerton. May 12, 2000: Torrential rains wash bacteria from cattle manure into Walkerton&#39;s shallow town well.