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Scary Spinach
Media Release
Sep. 19, 2006
Officials warn people not to eat spinach when more than 100 people became ill after eating the vegetable.
Don''t eat your spinach! Last week, U.S. health officials warned consumers to avoid bagged raw spinach after an outbreak of E. coli bacteria sickened people in at least twenty-one states.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes that the bug was spread when people ate bagged fresh spinach. By last Friday, officials had not been able to pinpoint a specific growing region or brand of spinach. "We''re advising people not to eat it," says Dr. David Acheson of the FDA.
E. coli causes diarrhea, vomiting and cramps. Usually people recover from the infection in five to ten days. In some people, especially very young children and the elderly, the bug causes a severe complication. One person in Wisconsin died from the infection last week.
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