The Nation - News from April 3, 1985
Food poisoning apparently caused by a batch of contaminated milk has stricken more than 500 persons in Illinois and Iowa, and the number of victims is likely to climb “into the thousands,” public health officials said in Springfield, Ill. The outbreak originated in five Chicago-area counties and has spread at least as far as central Illinois, with two cases confirmed in Iowa, officials said.
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