Dow Jones Newswire reported that French supermarket chain Leclerc is recalling several batches of frozen hamburgers, after 16 children and two adults were taken to hospital with E. coli food poisoning.
11 children suffering from hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can cause kidney failure. The remaining five children and two adults are suffering from acute gastroenteritis
17 ill after eating meat contaminated with bacteria in France
According to Agence France Presse, minced meat sold in the popular Leclerc supermarket chain in France has left at least 17 people with severe gastrointestinal problems because of E. coli contamination.
All but one of the victims were children. They were rushed to the hospital and some are being treated in intensive care.
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E. coli Infections Traced to Contaminated Parsley
Three cases of E. coli have been confirmed in patrons of McGrath’s Fish House in Bend, Indiana, in the past week. Those cases may now be linked to an outbreak in Washington caused by parsley used in restaurants and grocery stores there.
McGrath’s has closed its Bend restaurant to clean the facility and test employees, who have so far tested negative for the bacterium.Continue Reading E. coli Infections Traced to Contaminated Parsley
Woman sues Dole over E. coli
A Portland woman has gone to federal court to sue the Dole Food Company over packaged salad contaminated with E-coli.
Mary Scheetz, who suffered severe gastrointestinal illness and pain that put her in the hospital for several days, has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Portland, alleging that Dole was negligent
OUR VIEW: E. coli scare handled well
The Barren River District Health Department and Red Cross Elementary School, who recently had an outbreak of E.coli bacteria, immediately took decisive action to protect their residents.
Dr. Jerry Ralston, superintendent of Barren County Schools, took aggressive action by immediately meeting with his staff and sending information as well a personal letter home with each
Airlifts, blaming begin over native E. coli
Heather Sokoloff of the National Post, with files from Adrian Humphreys and Lee Greenberg, reports that two planeloads of children stricken by an E. coli outbreak were flown out of an Ontario Indian reserve for medical treatment last night.
David Ramsay, Ontario’s minister responsible for Indian affairs, said he no longer trusts Ottawa to ensure
E. coli found at Ontario reservation
The Associated Press reports that about 1,000 residents of a remote northern Ontario Indian reservation have been evacuated after Indian leaders and medical officials say E. coli has been discovered in water samples.
The federal government is helping fly roughly 1,000 of the 1,900 residents of the Kashechewan First Nation reserve, off the western shores
Was It Something I Ate?
San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Center for Disease Control estimates that Americans experience 76 million food-borne illnesses a year.
Unfortunately, very few of those incidents are reported, and even fewer are confirmed by laboratory tests. The symptoms are typically similar to those that accompany the flu: diarrhea, vomiting, stomach cramps. Many don’t bother going
Dole sued for outbreak
The Herald Salinas Bureau reports that legal action is mounting in connection to a recent E. coli outbreak that affected at least 17 people who said they became sick after eating Dole Fresh Vegetable bagged salads.
Bill Marler, an attorney with Marler Clark law firm in Seattle, will be filing on behalf of a woman
Flooded fields could be source of past E. coli outbreaks
The Herald Salinas Bureau reports that a report by the California Department of Health Services could affect a web of lawsuits and cross-complaints that have been filed in Salinas Valley, following E. coli outbreaks that killed one woman and sickened more than 100 people in California and Washington.
The report states that ready-to-eat produce grown