On the 11th anniversary of what Canadians refer to as the Walkerton Tragedy, the Ontario government announced it has paid more than $72 million ($74.4 million US) in compensation to victims of an E. coli outbreak and their families.
In May 2000, more than 2,300 became ill and seven people
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Ten years ago, the picturesque farming town of Walkerton, Ontario, was plunged into a nightmare of food poisoning that sickened 2,300 residents, killed seven, and terrorized the town and its surroundings for weeks.
Eventually, the horrific outbreak of E.coli O157:H7 and Campylobacter was blamed on a small herd of grass-fed
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Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
While it did not get enough attention in the United States, the Walkerton Water tragedy sent shockwaves through every public water supplier in the western world. What happened and the dire threat of E.
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