Disease Proof

By now we’re all aware of the spinach-E. coli outbreak. The past week has been flooded with reports as officials search for the root of the crisis. Here’s a roundup of DiseaseProof posts and some of today's news circulating around the net:

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• Health Points – September 15th: “Food and Drug Administration and state officials don't know the cause of the outbreak…”

• Health Points – September 18th: “CDC officials said Sunday that they've started an emergency operations center in Atlanta to assist state health agencies with testing for E. coli…”

• More On The Spinach Crisis – September 18th: “These outbreaks, warns Doyle, are an inevitable by-product of the way that many fruit and vegetable manufacturers have streamlined their production…”

• Finding The Spinach-E. Coli Outbreak Point – September 19th: “State and federal officials have traced the outbreak to a California company's fresh spinach…”

• Spinach-E. Coli Crisis Worsens – September 21st: “U.S. and state health officials continued to scour California's Salinas Valley spinach fields Tuesday for the source of a massive outbreak of E. coli contamination…”

Today's News

• Associated Press – September 22nd: “A 2-year-old Idaho boy's death could be linked to the nationwide outbreak of spinach contaminated with E. coli bacteria…”

• Associated Press – September 22nd: “‘We as an industry have to declare war on all food-borne illnesses,’ Tom Nassif, president of Western Growers Association…”

• Associated Press – September 22nd: “Two more deaths were under investigation Friday for possible links to tainted spinach…"

• The Los Angeles Times – September 22nd: “Even as government health experts urge Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables, federal rules for protecting consumers from such hazards as the current E. coli outbreak from contaminated spinach are weaker than for meat and poultry…”