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...sifting through E. coli DNA, scientists from the school's Madison campus announced Thursday that they've successfully sequenced and mapped all 4,288 of the organism's genes. Although the decoded strain is different from the deadly E. coli bacterium which caused 25 million pounds of potentially tainted beef to be recalled last month, TIME science correspondent Madeleine Nash says the discovery is nonetheless a major breakthrough. "The fact that this harmless type of E. coli has been decoded is important because it allows scientists to see, through comparison, how the nasty E. coli differs. If this...
Sources: Associated Press, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, VMI, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Parcel Service...
Last week, as a meat-loving nation watched the largest beef recall in history, everyone knew the culprit: a lethal strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli. The bug causes 20,000 infections a year in the U.S., most because of undercooked beef. The typical result is excruciating gastrointestinal distress. But for a few unlucky souls though--usually young children and the elderly--the consequences can be dire, even fatal...
...Colorado outbreak began in early June, when a young food-poisoning sufferer gave what he considered to be a suspicious beef patty to county health officials near his Pueblo home. By mid-August, at least 14 more cases--including Schlegelmilch's--had cropped up statewide, all traceable to patties prepared at a Columbus, Neb., meat-processing plant owned by Hudson Foods of Rogers, Ark. The contamination probably originated at one of the slaughterhouses that supplies the Nebraska plant, but U.S. Department of Agriculture investigators found extensive problems at the plant, including the practice of tossing one day's leftover...
Such questions led Schlegelmilch, a Denver receptionist, to join STOP (Safe Tables Our Priority), a Washington group for parents whose children have eaten tainted food. "I haven't purchased any ground beef," she says, "and I probably won't ever again...