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Seven other states, including Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah, have also been hit by the outbreak.
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Posted on 09/14/2006 7:07:33 PM PDT by milford421
E.Coli Outbreak Kills One In US Last Edited: Thursday, 14 Sep 2006, 9:00 PM CDT Created: Thursday, 14 Sep 2006, 8:40 PM CDT
An outbreak of E.coli that may be linked to bagged fresh spinach has killed one person and left another 50 sick.
The United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a nationwide warning to consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach.
The death occurred in Wisconsin where 20 other people were also hit.
Seven other states, including Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah, have also been hit by the outbreak.
FDA officials have said they do not know the source of the outbreak other than it appeared to be linked to bagged spinach.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and Wisconsin health officials alerted the FDA about the outbreak on Wednesday.
Early reports suggest the same bug is responsible for the outbreak in all eight states.
Most healthy adults can recover within a week, although some people, including the very young and old, can develop a form of kidney failure that often leads to death.
E.coli lives in the intestines of cattle and other animals and typically is linked to contamination by fecal material.
It causes an estimated 73,000 cases of infection, including 61 deaths, each year in the US.
Thanks for posting. BTTT!
Geez... After 36 years I decide to eat better and find out I kinda like spinach...NOW THIS!!! Screw it, I'm barbecueing a whole cow tomorrow. 'Til then,,, Ben and Jerry's BENDER!!!!!! Æ
Just dont crap on it.
The Ecoli comes from the Mexicans using human feces for fertilizer.
My husband LOVES it so I serve it fairly frequently. My daughter is only able to swallow it with a large gulp of milk.
It would be nice to know what company/brand bagged the spinach?! This story is woefully inadequate. And, oh, spinach is actually pretty easy to grow. I do it in flower boxes along with lettuce (so the resident bunnies can't get it).
Important enough to post multiple times. Someone died from it. Some folks missed the first one. I did.
Raw spinach tastes pretty much like leaf lettuce. It's when people cook the $hit out of it that it tastes like $hit.
And it's when the pickers (from who knows what country) $hit in the fields and don't use TP that people get e.coli and die. Humans aren't supposed to eat $hit.
That's a bummer...we use bagged spinach a lot...wish we knew whose spinach, Dole? Popeye? Whoever? all?
I'll stick to my curried spinach with cottage cheese for awhile...
nope
If you cooked the spinach, you should be fine. Spinach salads are the problem.
They don't carry porta potties out to the fields.............One easy way for illegal migrants or anyone picking to raise hell.
Connecticut ping!
Seven other states, including Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah, have also been hit by the outbreak.
Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.
Nice to see the FDA taking a break from harrassing physicians and being a kind of fascist influence paving the way for the pharmaceutical industry's artificially heightened profits.
Isn't NAFTA a wonderful thing????
You are correct. I am not able to come here as often as I'd like, so I usually just browse the most recently posted articles.
In other news, President Bush announced a new program to win over terrorists by airdropping them free spinach...
A few years ago, there was an outbreak from green onions, grown in Mexico. *sigh*
The five confirmed patients in Oregon were females who ranged in age from 8 to 62, said Dr. Bill Keene, an epidemiologist with the Oregon Department of Human Services. The cases originated between Aug. 25 and Sept. 1, he said, and were linked to the spinach but not to a specific brand."People have either varying or no recollection of the brand they purchased," Keene said.
I am not a vegetarian, and consider flesh to be the elixer of mankind. But to cook a little box of frozen spinach per the recommendations, let it cool, squeeze out the excess liquid with the hands, and place it as if were a patty between two pieces of whole wheat bread with bit of sea salt and a sprinkle of extra virgin olive oil is a bit of heaven.
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