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Wisconsin flooding responsible for boy’s kidney disease?

Posted June 30th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.com

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 a flooded creek near his home.

Authorities have warned repeatedly that flood water may be contaminated by bacteria because sewage plants were overwhelmed during the storms.

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