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  • Wild pigs eyed as source of deadly bacteria found in spinach

    10/26/2006 3:22:05 PM PDT · by SmithL · 34 replies · 857+ views
    AP ^ | 10/26/6 | ANDREW BRIDGES
    WASHINGTON - Wild pigs may have spread deadly bacteria onto a California spinach field, sparking an outbreak that killed three people and sickened more than 200 others nationwide, investigators said Thursday. State and federal investigators have narrowed their focus to the ranch, where boar trampled fences that had hemmed in a spinach field. Samples taken from a wild pig, as well as from stream water and cattle on the ranch, have tested positive for the same strain of E. coli implicated in the outbreak, said Dr. Kevin Reilly of the California Department of Health Services. Investigators continue to look at...