NC Raises Confirmed E. Coli Cases to 18
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RALEIGH, NC Nov 4, 2004 - The number of confirmed E. coli bacteria infections has risen to 18, with nine more suspected cases, state health officials said Tuesday.
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RALEIGH, NC - Health investigators narrowed the number of E. coli cases they think may be linked to the State Fair, with 20 confirmed infections still considered potentially a part of the same outbreak.
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RALEIGH, NC - Five people who attended last month&#39;s state fair had E. coli infections that stem from the same strain of bacteria, health investigators confirmed.
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RALEIGH, NC - At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E. coli bacteria (news - web sites), and the outbreak might be connected to a petting zoo that was at the State Fair, authorities said.
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State health officials confirmed the eighth human case of West Nile virus in Churchill County Friday, bringing the state total up to 18.
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Taco Bell on Tuesday boosted to nine the number of fast-food restaurants it had closed in New York and New Jersey after a suspected outbreak of the foodborne E. coli bacteria that may have sickened more than three dozen people.
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An outbreak of E. coli in eight states has left at least one person dead and 50 others sick, federal health officials said Thursday in warning consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach.
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RALEIGH, NC -- State health officials announced Monday that they have identified the that they have collected enough information from the ongoing E. Coli disease investigation to identify the state fair as the source of the outbreak.
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More bags of spinach tainted with   toxic E. coli bacteria have been found and could help   investigators track down an outbreak that may have killed three   people, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   said on Tuesday.
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Federal health officials are investigating whether a more potent strain of E. coli is behind an outbreak linked to fresh spinach that has sickened at least 131 people, half of whom have been hospitalized.
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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that prompted a nationwide consumer warning on fresh spinach and sickened at least 192 people.
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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., Dec. 4 -- An E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 22 people, two of them seriously, was linked by health investigators Monday to three Taco Bell restaurants in New Jersey.
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Recent E. coli outbreaks have drawn attention to foodborne illnesses, and though officials say the overall number of cases is on the decline, produce &#151; particularly leafy vegetables &#151; is increasingly a carrier of germs once linked only to meat and dairy.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 7--More people moving to North Carolina means more water usage in homes, businesses and industrial plants.
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Two suspected cases of E.coli are confirmed by public health officials at a school in the Bridgend area.
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The E. coli outbreak widened considerably, with cases reported for the first time in New York City, Delaware, South Carolina and Utah.
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The death of an elderly Nebraska woman has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli from tainted spinach, state health officials said Friday.