“Of course we are challenging nature itself, and, it hits back … We have to accept that it’s much stronger than we are.”
– Werner Herzog (German Filmmaker on filming of
So the mystery of Germany’s sproutbreak is finally solved. Let the finger-pointing begin.
Nearly six weeks into the European epidemic of toxic E. coli O104:H4, German authorities
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella linked to backyard chicks and ducklings has expanded to affect 39 people in 15 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
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“It is the sprouts.”
As the death toll in Germany pushed to 31, the county’s national disease-control center Friday said a new case-control study indicates that locally
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Foreign aquaculture
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With the confusing back-and-forth claims and retractions about bean sprouts being the possible culprit in the tragic E. coli outbreak in Germany, it’s not surprising that some
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My daughter Megan and I picked an interesting week to travel to Europe. We’re in the Netherlands where I’m doing research for my doctorate in environmental health. We