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Oregon Girl, 4, Dies From Complications Linked to E. Coli
A 4-year-old Oregon girl has died from medical complications possibly resulting from an E. coli infection contracted sometime just before Labor Day weekend, according to the girl’s uncle, who spoke...
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E. Coli Infection Kills Washington Girl, 3
Brooklyn Hoksbergen, 3, of Lynden, WA, died Sept. 5 from an E. coli infection at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Her father, Rob Hoksbergen, said the family doesn’t know how or where she became ill and...
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Oregon Officials Say Source of Deadly E. Coli Infection May Never be Found
Health officials in Oregon are testing several possible contaminants that could be the source of the E. coli infection that killed a 4-year-old Oregon girl this week, but they warn that the source may...
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Oregon Restaurant Ruled Out as the Source of Recent E. Coli Infections
The Lincoln County Public Health Division in Newport, OR, announced Wednesday that the restaurant in Otis, OR, where Serena Profitt, 4, and her friend, Brad Sutton, 5, shared a turkey sandwich over...
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Officials Suspect Pet Goat Was Source of E. Coli
Public health officials in Oregon suspect that the 4-year-old girl who died from an E. coli infection in September was infected by droppings from the family’s pet goat, according to a report by Lynne...
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Grandmother of E. Coli Victim Backs Oregon Bill to Require Earlier Testing
The grandmother of a 4-year-old Oregon girl who died last September after testing positive for an E. coli infection is advocating legislation to require testing of children for the pathogen after four...
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