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With the worst flu outbreak since 2009 gripping the U.S., vaccine makers are determined to do better next season. They’re developing powerful vaccines that hold the promise of cutting incidences of flu by the thousands.
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E. coli that has sickened thousands in Europe has become the deadliest outbreak of the bacteria on record as a rare strain is causing kidney failure in unprecedented numbers, U.S. health officials said.
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Doctors treating the world’s deadliest E. coli outbreak have little beyond water and dialysis machines to help them clear the contagion from patients, according to infectious disease specialists.
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Crudites eaten at a children’s center in the French city of Bordeaux are helping doctors in their two- month hunt for the source of the world’s deadliest E. coli outbreak.
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German officials said sprouts from an organic farm near the town of Uelzen played a role in the country’s lethal E. coli outbreak, returning suspicions to the region where the infections began last month.
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The U.S. would boost monitoring of poultry processors’ sanitary practices and contamination controls instead of eyeballing each bird for scabs and sores under a plan that would save companies $250 million a year.
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German states’ broad powers over health and safety may have slowed response to the E. coli outbreak, with no single federal agency responsible for tracking the bug and assigning the blame.
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