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Every time you turn around, there's another one. And the population has quadrupled in the past six months. This isn't the exponential growth of E. Coli bacteria, but the increasing numbers of science publications at Harvard in recent months...
...course and implemented the "safe handling" labels on poultry that the industry had fought for many years. Moreover, he appointed a new chief of the USDA's inspection service, Michael Taylor, a respected veteran of the tougher Food and Drug Administration. Taylor has already declared that a deadly E. coli pathogen found in beef is a product of the processing system rather than a naturally occurring bacterium. This new status means that producers can be held liable for food poisoning...
...diseases. As if AIDS were not enough to worry about, there was a rise in other sexually transmitted infections, including herpes, syphilis and gonorrhea. People heard about the victims who died in the Northwest from eating undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers tainted with a hazardous strain of E. coli bacteria. They were told to cook their chicken thoroughly to avoid food poisoning from salmonella bacteria. And last year they saw how the rare hantavirus, once unknown in the U.S., emerged from mice to kill 30 people in as many as 20 states...
MOST OUTBREAKS OF FOOD POISONING ARE TRACED to contaminated meat. Federal investigators have now identified another potential culprit: fresh apple cider, the kind sold at roadside stands or refrigerated in plastic jugs. Tracking a 1991 Massachusetts outbreak of infection with dangerous E. coli bacteria, researchers discovered that most of the 23 victims drank unpasteurized, unpreserved cider purchased at a local farm stand. Scientists warn that some small cider mills do not carefully wash and scrub their apples, which may have dropped to the ground and been tainted with animal droppings. The drink had been thought safe because of its acidity...
...CASE OF INDIGESTION AFTER EATING FAST FOOD IS one of the hazards of modern life. Something quite different happened when severe food poisoning struck hundreds of people in Washington, Idaho and Nevada who had dined at Jack in the Box restaurants. Doctors are blaming a savage strain of E. coli bacteria first identified 10 years ago. Somehow the germs infected a shipment of hamburger meat, which was then undercooked in restaurant kitchens. Two children died, only one of whom had eaten at Jack in the Box. This suggested that the bacteria could in some cases spread to people...