An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old ...

An E. coli outbreak in Arizona has been linked to the state fair's petting zoo, sickening dozens of children. State health officials did not publicly identify the fair as the source, citing a policy ...

Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves as fast as swine flu. Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, ...

At least four children who were hospitalized touched a pig at the petting zoo before getting sick. The petting zoo lacked hand-washing stations, offering only hand sanitizer, which does not kill E.