[CH] More Science Junk
KB (khemcp@yahoo.com)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 06:31:54 -0700 (PDT)
N.Y. tracing fatal E. coli bacteria
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - High levels of E. coli
bacteria found at a county fair's water supply could
be the link that connects the death of a
3-year-old girl and the sickening of 118 fairgoers,
officials
said. Rain water runoff from a barn housing
hundreds of cattle apparently seeped into an aquifer
used to supply the Washington County
Fairgrounds, state Health Department spokeswoman
Kristine A. Smith said Sunday. Water
samples taken over the weekend showed high levels of
E.
coli bacteria. Smith said scientists must
test the bacteria to verify whether it is the
potentially
deadly strain that sent scores of
doubled-over patients to area hospitals.
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