A strain of E. coli lurking in lettuce has sickened 89 people across 15 states and killed one. The outbreak appears to have begun in St. Louis, Missouri, when a group of high school students at their annual marching band banquet ate salads served by a local catering company and were soon doubled over in pain and hospitalized. Instances of severe illness requiring hospitalization were not isolated to Missouri ā miles away in Indiana, a nine-year-old was placed on dialysis for two weeks when an E. coli infection caused life-threatening kidney damage. Read the full story on
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