Elderly Woman’s Death Is Third From E. Coli
From Times Wire Reports
An elderly woman who died of kidney failure in late August was infected with E. coli after eating fresh spinach, bringing to three the number of people who have perished in a nationwide outbreak of the bacteria, health officials said in Omaha.
The woman, in her 80s, ate spinach contaminated with the same strain of E. coli that has sickened at least 190 other people around the country, state health officials said.
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