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E. coli strain behind Europe food scare identified - health watchdog

03.06.2011 1:01

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Tweet - The European Union's watchdog for disease prevention said Thursday that lab tests had identified the strain of a lethal E. coli germ that had caused an amplifying food scare. In a statement, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said the "causative agent" was a member of a group of bacterial strains called Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, or STEC. The tests that pinpointed the strain were conducted by the World Health Organisation's (WHO) reference...

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