A North Carolina toddler, 2-years-old, died over the weekend after contracting E. coli from a county fair he attended over a week ago. The toddler boy, Gage Lefevers, succumbed to a bacterial infection over the weekend. The type of E. coli that was passed onto victims which include 7 adults and 14 children, happened during ... read more »
Three children, including one toddler, were hospitalized last week from what Oregon Public Health officials believe to be a food borne illness brought about by raw milk consumption. Today, the Oregon Public Health Department (OPHD) has confirmed that two more children under the age of 15 have contracted E. coli from the raw milk in ... read more »
By 2012, the demand for local food is expected to hit $7 billion, almost twice what it was in 2002, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Much of that food is provided by the 6,000+ farmers markets in the United States (up 40 percent in the past five years). While local food is obviously growing in popularity, there is also ... read more »
Possible E. coli contamination caused the U.S. Department of Agriculture to issue a Class I recall for 40,000 pounds of ground beef products intended for Georgia school lunches. A statement released Friday by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said the beef was produced by Palo Duro Meat in Amarillo, Texas, on or before September 9. The beef ... read more »
PARIS (BNO NEWS) — Six young children have been hospitalized in northern France after falling ill as a result of E. coli infections, which are believed to be unrelated to the deadly outbreak in Germany. Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported on Thursday that the children were hospitalized in Lille, a city near the border with ... read more »
The Centers for Disease Control along with German authorities are warning people to avoid raw lettuce, tomatoes or cucumbers as officials are still trying to determine where the E. coli O104:H4 strain originated. Originally thought to have come from Spain, the new E. coli bacterium is the combination of two particularly “nasty” strains according to ... read more »
The recent flooding in Wisconsin is the prime suspect for causing a 6-year-old’s serious kidney disease. The doctors suspect he’s got a hard-to-detect strain of E. coli bacteria, although a test for a potentially deadly form of it came out negative. Dr. Ellen Wald says the boy started vomiting three days after he played in ... read more »
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