Search for E. coli source is narrowed
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California produce growers and processors worked to draw up new food-safety measures Thursday as government investigators trying to pinpoint the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak narrowed their search to three counties.
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State and federal health authorities were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island getaway in Lake Erie.
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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   elderly woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli   infections raised to three the number of deaths related to a   nationwide health scare around fresh spinach, state health   officials said on Friday.
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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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Scientists say a system is needed to monitor the spread of a potentially fatal form of drug-resistant E.coli.
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Growers and scientists were beginning to grasp the difficulties officials face in trying to pinpoint the source of the bacteria.
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There are now 61 confirmed cases of E. coli related to the outbreak that hit Taco Bell restaurants in the Northeast in the past two weeks, including the first confirmed case in New York City, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and New York state health officials.
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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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Investigators searched nine California farms for evidence of spinach-borne E. coli yesterday, going into the fields for the first time, as the number of confirmed illnesses rose by 17 to  131.
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RALEIGH, NC North Carolina health officials say an outbreak of E. coli cases appears to be bigger than first thought. The number of confirmed cases has jumped from 20 to 31 cases.
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A second California produce company   is recalling fresh spinach products as investigators hunt for   the source of an E. coli that killed one person and sickened   more than 100, a U.S. official said on Sunday.
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FOOD poisoning, it seems, has become a moving target for health officials.   For years, health experts rightly cautioned the American public about the dangers of E. coli sickness caused by raw or undercooked beef. And the handling of beef for human consumption requires vigilance.
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Investigators trying to track down the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illnesses on a Lake Erie resort island are focusing on drinking water.
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U.S. health officials said on Monday they were not ready to declare an end to an E. coli outbreak, linked to Taco Bell, that sickened at least 64 people, saying they could not confirm that green onions were the source of the bacteria.
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Green onions, which Taco Bell has said may have triggered an E. coli outbreak at its restaurants, could not be confirmed as the source of the bacteria, U.S. health officials said on Monday.
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Investigators are trying to determine the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal infections on an island in Ohio. More than 1,000 visitors to South Bass Island in Lake Erie
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Dec. 15--Customers of the Browns Ferry Water District in central Georgetown County were advised late Thursday to boil their water before drinking it or use bottled water because E. coli was found in the water.