January 2009

Girl Gets E. Coli And Then HUS–All From Touching Deer Meat

By E. coli Lawyer on January 6, 2009

You can’t even trust Bambi anymore. Doug Powell, from Barfblog, emailed me the story of a young girl who suffered HUS after contracting an E. coli infection from handling deer meat.

Beverly said the only other thing she could think of was that her husband, Red, had shot a deer the Friday after

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By E. coli Lawyer on January 2, 2009

Okay, so 2008 was NOT as big a year for E. coli recalls as was 2007.

Total amount of beef recalled last year was around seven million pounds; far less than the 29 million pounds recalled during 2007.

Still, we are talking about measurements in the MILLIONS OF POUNDS, something that we could…