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Goat prank closes NC high school football field for 6 months
Whoever released 10-12 goats on a North Carolina high school football field last week probably didn’t figure the field would be closed for six months. But that’s exactly the result for athletes at...
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Bambi poops in water, 4 kids get sick with E. coli O157, 2016
In May 2016, an outbreak of Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli O157 infections occurred among children who had played in a stream flowing through a park. Analysis of E. coli isolates from the...
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Where does E. coli O157:H7 come from? Food Inc. and cookie dough versions
Is E. coli O157:H7 associated with things other than feedlot cattle? I had a few people call me recently, saying, I saw that movie, Food, Inc., which says that E. coli O157:H7 is predominately in...
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Nosestretcher alert: Buying organic cow can help avoid E. coli
Eager to capitalize on news of the day, Mary Forstbauer, an organic farmer in Chilliwack, B.C. who sells beef at farmer’s markets across Metro Vancouver, told News1130 E. coli is not as common in...
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E. coli happens: cook burgers to 165F, whatever ruminant it came from
Seventeen years ago, Gregg Jesperson ate a burger that was still pink at a mom-and-pop restaurant in northern Alberta (that’s in Canada), where he and his family were living at the time. The medication...
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