The first fatality in the United States associated with the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Europe was an Arizona man who had traveled to Germany, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday.
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The outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Europe struck mostly women and men in their prime who thought they were eating healthy food, the director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
The European Union banned the import of certain Egyptian seeds and beans Tuesday following an official report that a single batch of well-travelled Egyptian fenugreek seeds probably caused two European outbreaks of E. coli poisoning
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported Monday that the European toll in the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany and France linked to sprouts had risen to 4,173 illnesses and
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What are the lessons learned so far from the O104:H4 outbreak?
German medical and public health authorities are burdened by the equivalent of more than 10 normal years worth of case loads occurring in a
Seed company threatens to sue American news sites for naming it as suspect in European E. coli outbreak.
The investigation into the European E. coli crisis linked to sprouts has been closing in on Egyptian…
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French health authorities have confirmed what has been suspected for days, that the E. coli outbreak in Bordeaux is linked to the earlier German epidemic, and that contaminated sprouts may well still be available across
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Fenugreek sprouts are “the most likely connection” between the outbreaks of E. coli O104:H4 in France and Germany, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported
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The outbreak of E. coli affecting more than a dozen victims in Bordeaux, France is now almost conclusively linked to the ongoing epidemic of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany that has claimed the lives of…
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A task force assembled hurriedly by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will try to track down whether British seeds are the common factor between 10 suspected E. coli illnesses in France and the massive
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