Ohio State's One Health Effort Connects Collaborators Around the Globe
November 09, 2018
November 09, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 9 -- Ohio State University issued the following news:
In 2006, three deaths and 276 illnesses in 26 states were traced to pre-washed and bagged spinach contaminated with E. coli bacteria, costing the industry an estimated $100 million and changing the way people ate spinach for years. An investigation found the same strain of E. coli in the spinach, the crop field soil, an uphill cattle farm, wild pigs living in the area and a stream that was used for irrigation . . .
In 2006, three deaths and 276 illnesses in 26 states were traced to pre-washed and bagged spinach contaminated with E. coli bacteria, costing the industry an estimated $100 million and changing the way people ate spinach for years. An investigation found the same strain of E. coli in the spinach, the crop field soil, an uphill cattle farm, wild pigs living in the area and a stream that was used for irrigation . . .