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  • Second spinach death confirmed in Idaho

    10/05/2006 5:25:03 PM PDT · by Shermy · 26 replies · 661+ views
    AP ^ | October 5, 2006 | Rebecca Boone
    BOISE, Idaho - A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that prompted a nationwide consumer warning on fresh spinach, health officials said Thursday. Kyle Allgood was the second confirmed death in the outbreak, which also killed an elderly Wisconsin woman and sickened at least 190 other people. "This confirms what we suspected for quite some time," said Ross Mason, a spokesman for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. The boy died Sept. 20 in Salt Lake City after developing a type of kidney failure caused...